- From: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 21:21:35 +0200
- To: <public-html@w3.org>, <wai-xtech@w3.org>
At 00:32 -0700 UTC, on 2007-09-04, John Foliot wrote: > Sander Tekelenburg wrote: >>> Remember that "accessibility" doesn't just mean "readable to blind >>> people". >> >> Within the W3C space, it does. I dislike it, but I think we need to >> be realistic about it. > > I must take exception with this. Sorry for my sloppy quoting. I meant of course that within W3C the term "accessibility" means "access to the Web for people with disabilities"-- not "universality". As Jon gracefully pointed out, from both the rest of his message, as well as the wiki entries I pointed to, it seems it could have easily been understood that that was what I meant. [...] >> [3] the HTML5 draft now says [...] > > This ship has not sailed yet, and "no longer requiring @alt" is far from > conceded. At best it is a suggestion, and one that is not universally > agreed-to or supported. To suggest or consider otherwise is plain wrong. I couldn't agree more. Not sure what point you're trying to make though, given that I said "draft" and "now". -- Sander Tekelenburg The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>
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