- From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 11:28:29 +1000
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "Justin James" <j_james@mindspring.com>, public-html@w3.org
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > <div>Pepper is ampersand low-gravity hair bumper.</div> > > ...is not accessible at all, to anyone. I'd contend it's highly accessible (plain text in a div), but nobody will comprehend the meaning behind it. This probably seems a useless distinction, but if the above were authored as an image without alt text then it would not be 'accessible' to all. I know WAI - for good reasons - has a very broad definition of 'accessibility' that includes the 'understand' angle [1]. I just think that degree of 'accessibility' is largely beyond the scope of HTML, and in this WG we should focus on ensuring that HTML itself, and the content it marks up, are accessible (as in "available" to user agents and assistive technology). Which I think we are doing ... [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php
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