- From: Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:23:32 +0100
- To: "John Foliot" <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "Shelley Powers" <shelleyp@burningbird.net>, "HTML Accessibility Task Force" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:29:07 +0100, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: > > Another question, John, do you find the definitions of aside and > figure too close in meaning? Should the definitions be changed? If so > how? The definitions of the aside and figure sound almost identical, > except that figure has a caption. Do you consider the overlapping > definitions problematic? Developers will tend to confuse the two > elements and use them incorrectly. They're especially similar where figure has no caption. I wrote to the WG on this in July last year http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-July/020710.html Main difference, in such a case, seems to me to be that aside affects document outline, as it's sectioning content, while figure doesn't. The accessibility implications of this I leave to cleverer people that me (=Foliot) -- Hang loose and stay groovy, Bruce Lawson Web Evangelist www.opera.com (work) www.brucelawson.co.uk (personal) www.twitter.com/brucel Pre-order my HTML5 book www.introducinghtml5.com
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