- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:09:23 -0500
- To: Matt Morgan-May <mattmay@adobe.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 13:04 -0700, Matt Morgan-May wrote: > On 5/12/08 11:00 AM, "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 10:46 -0700, Matt Morgan-May wrote: > > [...] > >> No, I'm afraid that people who are tired of HTML 4.01 requiring @alt will > >> flock to HTML5 since it gives them the freedom to ignore accessibility > >> wholesale. > > > > I hope you've overstated your case and that you don't > > actually subscribe to a position that extreme. > > Yes, that was somewhat of an overstatement. However, we have seen many of > the accessibility-related features of HTML stripped at this point, @alt > being only the most egregious example. Taken together, it's reasonable to > conclude that accessibility is not being taken seriously, ... fair enough. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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