- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:35:15 -0700
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Hi Julian, On Aug 4, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> ... >> 3) HTML5 will continue to include a mandatory warning for >> summary="". The purpose is not to completely prevent authors from >> using summary="", but rather to bring alternatives to their >> attention, as described above. >> ... > > This would compute if HTML5 was proposing something that actually > can replace @summary (*); as far as I can tell, this is currently > not the case. To be really clear, the purpose of the warning is to give authors the chance to *consider* other approaches, not to outright rule out summary. It wouldn't say "don't use summary", it would say something like "if you're using summary, you may want to consider these issues and these alternate approaches...". So an author could see the warning and decide they have good reason to use summary="" anyway. I think this is appropriate, because HTML4 did not have any other recommended techniques for table descriptions, so the warning will give authors a good chance to consider other approaches. It's also similar in spirit to validator.nu's "image report" feature, which will help you ensure that your use of images is accessible but without commanding one specific way to do it. Regards, Maciej
Received on Tuesday, 4 August 2009 19:35:56 UTC