Fw: ContextHelp vs. Title...

In agreement Chris Hofstader, i forward his e-mail that i've received as
reply yesterday.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Hofstader" <chris.hofstader@verizon.net>
To: "'Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG'" <rscano@iwa-italy.org>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:33 PM
Subject: RE: ContextHelp vs. Title...


> Hi,
>
> The Social Security Administration specifically requested we add such
a
> feature to our HTML support.  I have sent in a description of the
> attribute to people at the W3C and requested that it be considered for
> inclusion in a future version of the specification.  Because context
> help should be read at the users request, title and alt do not work as
> they are often used interchangeably and we need to read them every
time
> we encounter a field that has one.  There didn't seem to be anything
in
> the specification that let us do what our users needed.
>
> Thanks,
> cdh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG [mailto:rscano@iwa-italy.org]
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 9:14 AM
> To: John M Slatin; WCAG List
> Cc: chris.hofstader@verizon.net
> Subject: Re: ContextHelp vs. Title...
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John M Slatin" <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
> To: "Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG" <rscano@iwa-italy.org>; "WCAG List"
> <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> Cc: <chris.hofstader@verizon.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 3:07 PM
> Subject: RE: ContextHelp vs. Title...
>
>
> This new "contexthelp" attribute is potentially very useful.
Currently,
> though, it's a proprietary feature-- only JAWS recognizes it (and only
> JAWS 5.0 at that).  I note that Freedom Scientific plans to propose
> adding the attribute to the XHTML spec; if that happens this will be a
> good thing!
>
>
> Roberto:
> Yes... it is interesting but:
>
> 1 - Shall Freedom Scientific let W3C to add to the future XHTML spec?
> 2 - What about the "old" HTML 4.xx / XHTML 1.x?
> 3 - What about the UAAG?
>
> One of the point of the W3C guidelines and also of the WCAG WG must be
> to give guidelines to web developers and software developers and not
> adapt the "proprietary guidelines"... this is IMHO...
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