- From: Jared Smith <jared@webaim.org>
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 14:03:29 -0600
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net> wrote: > Correct. It's a cooperative effort between content creators, spec > manufacturers, and browser writers - if we don't ALL cooperate we ALL > lose. > > In this case the specification is there, the document authors has done > their job, now the AT writers must do theirs. Precisely. If a failure is quantified by the ability for user agents to support and identify an underlying element, then there are much bigger issues than just <code> that would introduce failures. <strong>, <em>, <blockquote>, <cite>, and a host of others would most notably fail because they are largely ignored and not identified distinctly from surrounding text - though there's no reason why they couldn't be. The reverse could equally be applied - why require associated labels for adjacent form elements when screen readers already auto-associate them. User agent support cannot be the whole measure of these criterion. Jared Smith WebAIM
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