- From: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:25:03 +0000
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org>
Quoting Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>: > The way I would like to look at this is that if you or anybody else is > proposing to make summary obsolete, you take on the whole task and not > leave half of it undone. What concerns me most is the attitude that > "we" will mark it obsolete and everything else...? *shrug* That's > "their" problem. I think this is a very unfair characterization of the situation. The HTML 5 specification currently lists five different techniques for including content of the type that in HTML4 documents was expected to be included in the summary attribute. Which of these techniques is most appropriate depends on the details of the information the author is providing. If your concern is that the HTML Techniques section of the Techniques for WCAG 2.0 [1] has not yet had techniques updated to reflect the change in the state of the art in HTML5 then I think the order of priorities is wrong, at least in the normal course of things; working with WAI to update WCAG Techniques could happen during the Last Call period. However given the immense amount if attention this issue has received I am happy to work on this earlier if it will help resolve the situation (I see Maciej has already volunteered to work in this area but I can do so if he finds he doesn't have the bandwidth or whatever). [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/
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