- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:50:27 +0000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Matt Morgan-May <mattmay@adobe.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "janina@rednote.net" <janina@rednote.net>, W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>
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
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