Re: What makes a failure? (@summary, et al)

My guess is that we would say that something has *failed* when its 
use on the web has become hopelessly polluted with incorrect usage, 
such that those needing what it's intended for no longer look there 
for their answer.  I think that was the situation described for 
longdesc.

so, abuse is widespread and swamps usage -> failure.  we cannot soon 
recover.  think again.

Something that is neither used nor misused is neither a success or 
failure, in my opinion.

neither abusage nor usage -> not succeeding.  think about why we're 
not getting traction.

plenty of usage and not too much abuse -> success!  go and celebrate! 
(sigh, doesn't seem to happen often in accessibility)
-- 
David Singer
Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.