- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:21:11 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Joshue O Connor wrote: > Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > When you guys develop the wording, I'd suggest also having this as an > > explicit option: [...] > > That would be fine with me. The proposal, or the vote text? Do you think this would be ok?: What do you think HTML5 should say about making complex data tables more accessible? ( ) HTML5 should encourage authors to use the summary="" attribute that was introduced in HTML4. ( ) The text currently in the HTML5 spec is fine. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html#table-descriptions ( ) The text currently in the HTML5 spec is mostly fine, but should in addition make summary="" conforming for authors (without encouraging it over other options). http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html#table-descriptions ( ) Something else, described below. If you said "something else", please describe it here: [_____] I think if we have these options we should definitely also include three little 150-word essays that argue each case, so that people who aren't familiar with the issues can read up on them before voting. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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