- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:06:26 +0000 (UTC)
- To: public-html@w3.org
As per Sam's request, this e-mail is a report of the status of issues on the agenda that have actions due before 2009-07-03 (11 days from now), from the persective of the spec. ISSUE-32 (table-summary): how to provide a summary of a table, e.g. for unsighted navigation? There are 81 e-mails on this subject that I haven't yet read carefully or responded to: http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/misc/cgi/issues.cgi/folder/summary--blocked-waiting-on-htmlwg I'm not sure how to proceed on this topic. The data seems to support the position that summary="" hasn't materially improved accessibility, but this appears to not have convinced advocates of this feature. There are some proposals for other solutions, but it's not clear that any of them are compelling (though I may be wrong, and will find out for sure when I go through the feedback in more detail). Advice from the chairs about how to proceed on this topic would be useful. ISSUE-35 (aria-processing): Need to define processing requirements for aria states and properties when used in html I'm waiting for the ARIA group to respond to last call feedback. ISSUE-54 (doctype-legacy-compat): tools that can't generate <!DOCTYPE html> ISSUE-59 (normative-language-reference): Should the HTML WG produce a separate document that is a normative language reference and if so what are the requirements ISSUE-13 (handling-http-401-status): Handling HTTP status 401 responses / User Agent Authentication Forms ISSUE-41 (Decentralized-extensibility): Decentralized extensibility ISSUE-60 (html5-xhtml-namespace): Reuse of 1999 XHTML namespace is potentially misleading/wrong It's not clear to me what needs changing in the spec for these issues. I continue to seek feedback from the chairs regarding which sections lack consensus support from the working group, so that we can remain on track for Last Call publication in October. I would also like to request confirmation from the chairs that these "input on the agenda" e-mails are still useful. Unless they are indeed found useful, I will stop sending them; I fear they may just be contributing to the noise and not helping. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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