- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:14:07 +0300
- To: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org
(Reply to the earlier parts of the message sent to www-archive.) On Sep 11, 2007, at 21:36, John Foliot wrote: [...] > But we *must* think beyond creating a spec that serves "JAWS". > Once upon a > time Netscape 4 ruled the web, and creating a spec that caters to a > single > technology is wrong. I'm not advocating catering to a single technology. However, as I understood the message that started this thread, the point the message made was that what the draft says now is not good because it exposes a major usability bug in the current version of JAWS. [...] > Suggesting however that allowing "nothing" as part of the spec > cannot be seen as a positive step forward - a message that has been > consistent from some quarters since the beginning. The issue remains, though, that there exist and will exist unattended systems that put images on generated HTML pages and don't have human- authored alt text available. Document conformance requirements need to be set in such a way that developers of unattended systems will end up doing the least harm when making their systems meet machine- checkable conformance criteria. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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