Re: summary="" in HTML5 ISSUE-32

Ian Hickson wrote:
> We're not just removing it, we're replacing it with something that helps 
> more users (<caption>).

Please do not suggest stuffing the <caption> with verbose descriptions
or summaries. That will be a completely retrograde step. Caption should
be a terse descriptor only.

> The current proposal is to use <caption> instead of summary="", which 
> should both improve the quality of the accessibility aids (since authors 
> will _see_ their bad summaries and remove them if they're bad) and the 
> make them universally accessible (since <caption> is media-independent).

-1

Received on Friday, 27 February 2009 08:51:22 UTC