- From: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 12:22:21 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "'Shelley Powers'" <shelleyp@burningbird.net>, <public-html@w3.org>
Shelley Powers wrote: > > The other concern expressed in the IRC, rather emphatically, too, if one > looks at the exclamation points, is the fact that we don't see > widespread use of @summary after ten years! Half the web! (Those are > more or less direct quotes from the discussion.) > > Of course, I'm not an accessibility expert, just an interested > bystander, but I've noticed that--and this is unfortunate--changes in > general behavior in order to provide support for a minority, in this > case those with physical challenges, tends to happy very, very slowly. It is also important to note that the PF-WG specifically wrote: * We reject the argument that summary should be removed from the HTML * specification because it is not implemented on most web sites. We note * that accessibility is poorly supported on most web sites. The wider * web is not an example of good practice. Time and time again, it appears that the HTML WG fail to embrace this truism. JF
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