- From: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:40:27 -0700
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, <wai-xtech@w3.org>
- Cc: <whatwg@whatwg.org>, <public-html@w3.org>
Earlier today, Lachlan Hunt posed the following question [http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20070823#l-271]: # [04:40] <Lachy> why do people keep overreacting and bringing up the headers issue all the time?! http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Aug/0926.html # [05:15] <Hixie> "headers= are allready counted by our editor as insignificant" # [05:15] <Hixie> they are? i thought i'd not yet looked at them. ...and there you have it. Despite protracted discussion (argument?) and a formal submission from the WAI PF regarding the requirement of headers for complicated tables on June 6, 2007 [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jun/0145.html], the "official" word from Ian Hickson is that they've "not yet looked at them". What more needs to be looked at? Our community provided research, rationale and worked within the system (and the system's rules) in response to this issue, yet it is still deemed open or unresolved. It is *exactly* this kind of response/reaction that many such as myself are frustrated with. This issue should be resolved - now. Either headers as they are currently used are *in* the HTML 5 draft, or they are *out*. I challenge the editors to answer this very simple question - are you *really* listening to us, or are you simply smiling and nodding, and going back to your IRC channel to bash the accessibility advocates once again? Lachlan, the answer to your question is as clear as the nose on your face - we keep bringing up the same issues, because you guys keep ducking the hard answers. JF
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