- From: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:43:46 -0500
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>,HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
At 05:42 PM 8/7/2009 -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >If anyone has direct recollection of the decision or can find other >directly relevant emails, that would be useful data. Likewise if >anyone knows about any usability studies that WAI may have done in the >course of creating WCAG or WCAG2, and whether they address this topic. I have just posted some of my recollections. >Some tentative thoughts based on the data presented so far: > >1) We should make sure, for the sake of future generations, that >decisions relating to HTML5 are well-documented in the public record. > >2) Perhaps <table title=""> could be suggested as a possible table >description technique. The issue with being limited to one line has >been fixed in modern browsers. See my recent post. @title is already used for table description. It is not intended to serve the purpose that @summary is intended to serve, nor will @summary be needed for much longer. There is no profit in redesigning @summary, since it will be supplanted by ARIA in due course.
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