RE: Is the Alt Attribute Dead? - Article on Updated F65

Agreed, and Steven F additional clarification as well......:-) 



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From: Joshue O Connor [mailto:joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie] 
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 5:53 AM
To: Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL
Cc: 'Jonathan Avila'; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org; 'Andrew Kirkpatrick'
Subject: Re: Is the Alt Attribute Dead? - Article on Updated F65

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Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL wrote:
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> I am first going to make a comment about F65 (because that is the 
> focus of my concern), and I will review the rest of the email, and comment
later.
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> The important thing about F65 - yes, it is a failure technique - but 
> failure techniques are what evaluation and repair tool vendors build 
> their tools around - to identify conformance/non-conformance. And, in 
> that respect, failures are one of the most important kind of 
> techniques we provide. Having worked for such a tool vendor, and (like 
> all of us) utilized these tools at various times, their ability to 
> impact the application of WCAG is tremendous.

Yes, thanks for re-iterating the perspective of the tool vendors.

> I share similar concerns about title, and validation, as well as our 
> approach to the new techniques - that they do not kill access features 
> that enjoy wide support now. This is a very hard and delicate balance 
> to transition to new(ish) technologies. And frankly, I am concened 
> about our (working groups) ability to provide good guidance. I know we 
> *can* find a correct balance,

We will. I have confidence in all of us. We are making progress and are
opening up the discussion. Jons article is a part of that, as people will
start to think, 'Oh, there more than 1 way to implement *-a11y feature' and
so on.

Thanks

Josh

Received on Monday, 14 April 2014 12:46:26 UTC