- From: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:53:17 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "'Sam Ruby'" <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "'Leif Halvard Silli'" <lhs@malform.no>
- Cc: "'Ben Adida'" <ben@adida.net>, "'Manu Sporny'" <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org>, "'RDFa mailing list'" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Sam Ruby wrote: > > > Meanwhile, the Working Group is within its rights to decline to approve > the publication of a working draft that contains micro-data, or to > insist that RDFa be included or that micro-data (or the recent change > to summary) be explicitly marked. > > However, absolutely nobody has step forwarded and requested that any of > these be done. > Sam, On July 26th, I asked the editor: "Meanwhile, I respectfully request that you not impose your personal opinion on @summary and restore it to a valid and current HTML attribute - retaining its existing, current status as seen in both HTML4 and XHTML1" [1] This would be in keeping with the request and guidance that was formally submitted to the HTML WG by the PFWG on June 3, 2009 [2] (I won't spend too much time on Ian's rather dismissive response to either request) And so, *IF* my request to return @summary to a valid conforming (non-obsolete) attribute - complete with the removal of accessibility guidance that tells authors not to use @summary (which is currently in direct contradiction with WCAG 2 Guidance [3][4]) - until such time as this issue is properly resolve, via an open and transparent process (even if that means going to a vote), then I will remove my objection in the interest of forward movement. I have no objection to the draft specification offering other means of providing similar functionality, however I would suggest that in the interest of accessibility that the editor is not the proper person to provide opinionated guidance on which method is "best" - accessibility is the W3C chartered domain of WAI and the PFWG. You say that nobody has stepped forward? I just did. JF [1 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jul/0775.html ] [2 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2009Jun/0026.html ] [3 http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/H73 ] [4 http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20081211/content-struc ture-separation-programmatic.html ]
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