- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:33:10 -0700
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
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.
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