- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:24:16 +0300
- To: "William Loughborough" <love26@gorge.net>
- Cc: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On May 13, 2008, at 02:49, William Loughborough wrote: > Accessibility to the Web is the cornerstone of the World Wide Web, > not some bolted-on > characteristic. Actually, some accessibility features are built in and others are bolted on. When HTML-native form widgets are conveyed to AT as widgets, that's built-in. When an author recreates the effect with ARIA attributes, that's bolted-on. Whenever there's a long thread about accessibility, it's always about the bolted-on features, because with the built-in stuff you don't need to badger authors into taking care of accessibility because it comes as a side effect of their other authoring activity, so there isn't anything to discuss passionately. Alt is one of the bolted on things. It's not politically correct, but as a WG we can't make good decisions if we pretend otherwise. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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