- From: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:25:38 -0700
- To: "'Henri Sivonen'" <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "'Gez Lemon'" <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- Cc: "'HTML Working Group'" <public-html@w3.org>, "'W3C WAI-XTECH'" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > Also, "educating" > software developers to think differently (as seems to have > successfully happened in the case of Dreamweaver) is an uphill battle > compared to making a policy that concedes that this is how software > developers think and (perhaps even uses that in the policy's advantage > if possible). Might I humbly suggest that one of the ways that "we" were successful in this education process was that @alt is mandatory in the current "official" specs of HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1? Couple that with the Force of Law (Section 508 is bare-bones minimum but had a profound effect) and perhaps you can begin to understand why, even though from a pure-play CS programming perspective, the proposal that <img> be conformant without attendant textual equivalency has zero traction in other quarters. The whole "social engineering" thread has already been hashed out too Henri, I know you were there. I guess one of the real problems is that ensuring universal access (and the whole moral/legal issue surrounding that issue) transcends simple engineering - these twains shall simply will never meet. JF
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