Re: Placeholder behavior from Steve Faulkner on 2014-10-07 (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org from October to December 2014)

From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 16:00:17 +0100
To: Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com>
Cc: Sailesh Panchang <spanchang02@yahoo.com>, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CA+ri+Vm81cHFevc+0Lsn9xmi+8RpfwCuTpYKvSRPCT4pdr_TbQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 7 October 2014 15:52, Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:

> IMO something that is used for fallback purposes cannot be relied upon to
> provide an accessible name for conformance.  Thus, I think our overall
> message is confusing to people.


that is the difference between WCAG conformance and defining how an
accessible name is calculated by browsers.

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

Received on Tuesday, 7 October 2014 15:01:24 UTC