Re: 48-Hour Consensus Call: ARIA-DescribedAT & Longdesc

Quoting Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>:

>
> At this stage I think the situation is pretty sad, and while I'm  
> prepared to work on anything that makes sense, I am unhappy enough  
> to accept a half-arsed hand-me-down as better than nothing. :( But  
> in principle I still agree with you, because it seems that putting  
> in accessibility solutions we haven't thought through really  
> incredibly carefully isn't a good idea (witness the small editorial  
> mistakes that cost accesskey a decade, or the apparently  
> spur-of-the-moment "solution" to hit testing on canvas).

While this makes a certain sense on paper, I find it equally  
discouraging to simply shrug and say "let it sail, too bad the  
life-boats aren't ready". For this reason I would be very distressed  
to leave any known accessibility issues on the shelf in the interest  
of making a "shipping date".

I note with a certain sense of continued frustration that as recently  
as last May there was a resigned agreement to proceed to Last Call  
without resolving Issue 30, with A "PROMISE" to expedite that Issue  
thereafter.

The road to Dante's Inferno is paved with good intentions...

JF

Received on Thursday, 29 March 2012 23:25:47 UTC