- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:40:19 -0400
- To: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
- Cc: "'David Singer'" <singer@apple.com>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, "'Steve Faulkner'" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, public-html-admin@w3.org
Colleagues: As discussed separately on several W3C lists recently, there's significant desire to move forward with at least a heartbeat publication of "HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives." http://w3c.github.io/alt-techniques/ There's a fundamental flaw between the stated intent of this document and the approaches it discusses and recommends. Given that we have HTML in PR, it would seem reasonable that a document purporting to discuss "best practices for authors" would not include content based on features which so recently failed to satisfy HTML CR. In other words, either this is truly a "best practices' document and should include only approaches based on features able to reach PR status today, and the document should point to the PR (today, and the TR when it's available) when referring to HTML, orit should be called something other than "best practices." If the feature in question is unable to reach PR, it's too immature to be considered a "best" practice today. Currently, the above draft URL points to the HTML nightlies, which would be OK for something like a "Road Map to Future Alternative Text Approaches," but not for "best practices" today. I have filed a bug reflecting this concern: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27038 I believe we need a true "best practices" note. Therefore, as I stated in my bug, my preference would be to remove the guidance not supported by the current PR until after we conclude a V. 1.0 of this note. It would be appropriate to reintroduce more speculative approaches, and point again to the nightlies in a draft version following the conclusion of a version 1.0 of this note-track document. While I cannot categorically claim making such edits would remove objections to moving this document forward to note status today, I believe it would indeed cover the overwhelming majority of current objections. I do believe it's the best path forward. Janina -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
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