- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:05:16 -0600
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Hi Leif, > Well, there seems to be broad agreement that HTML4 did not describe > things well enough. On some things I agree. > Longdesc is one thing it was not enough clear about. Yes we have better longdesc spec text in the CP. > Also, with regard to @alt, then the only normative rule it had - > at least per the HTML4 validator - was that the author has must either > leave the attribute empty, or non-empty. > And no one read WCAG, despite those links. Some certainly did. > Nothing is guaranteed. But — and for what it is worth — I think we > should try to focus on making HTML5 as acceptable as possible, with > regard to A11Y. Acceptable to some may not be acceptable to others. > To focus on getting the WG to move @alt text from > HTML5, only seems like a distraction that could hurt — and perhaps > already have hurt — the attention to the other issues up for decision. Each issue is supposed to be decided by the merit of the arguments. Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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