- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:50:08 -0600
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On 1/23/10, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >>> >>> >>> So it sounds like no one else has strong feelings. I therefore suggest >>> that Ian should implement the fcaption/dlabel Change Proposal: >>> http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/ChangeProposals/DdDtFcaptionDlabel >>> >>> I think it would be fine to pick either of <fcaption> or <figcaption>, >>> and either of <dlabel> or <dsummary>. Once that change is made, the >>> Chairs will post a Call for Consensus to close this issue by amicable >>> resolution. >> >> <figcaption> seems reasonable, but can't we use <summary> instead of >> <dsummary>? The argument that it would be confusing because of summary="" >> doesn't seem to really hold water given that authors have no problems with >> >> <title> and title="", <style> and style="", <span> and span="", or <cite> >> and cite="", and nobody has particularly complained about us adding >> <label> and label="" or <form> and form="" in HTML5. In fact the best >> example may be <abbr> and abbr="", which haven't caused anyone any >> confusion that I'm aware of, where the meaning is subtly different in >> almost exactly the same way as proposed here, and where the attribute is >> similarly considered by many to be a feature that should be removed from >> the language anyway. > > That sounds pretty convincing to me, I don't know of anyone being seriously > confused by the cases above. And I agree your example with plain <summary> > reads nicely. Shelley, are you willing to reconsider your objection on this > point? Does anyone else have an opinion one way or the other? I am in favor of creating a <summary> element as it might be a long term solution for issue 32. From Al Gilman's 6 Aug 2008 email "PFWG WAI review of @summary for tabular data": "element content providing this info, *if linked by markup to the table*offers growth to even better practice" http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Aug/0213.html Brainstorming long term possibilities in the Wiki: http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/SummaryForTABLE#head-1d4cc386df3edd130dd677e056ba2bf98961145a Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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