- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:16:29 +0300
- To: Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, public-html@w3.org
On Jun 6, 2009, at 01:44, Shelley Powers wrote: > Well, I can understand the folks who are against pulling the > attribute. They've spent, what seems to me, a lot of time promoting > this attribute, and accessibility in general. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost_fallacy#Loss_aversion_and_the_sunk_cost_fallacy > And now, a few people just want to yank it because "it's not being > used right". As far as I can tell, that's not the reason for wanting to yank it. Instead, the reason is that having authors expend effort on an accessibility feature that by and large doesn't work is a net loss for Web accessibility due to the opportunity cost of the misplaced effort. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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