- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:19:11 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie, public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
Hi Ian and Joshue,
On Jul 5, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
>
> Joshue,
>
> Sam asked me to work with you to draft voting text for the issue
> regarding
> how to make complex data tables more accessible.
>
> Do you have any proposed text so far?
>
> If not, what would you think of the following?:
>
> What do you think HTML5 should say about making complex data tables
> more accessible?
>
> ( ) HTML5 should encourage authors to use the summary="" attribute
> that was introduced in HTML4.
>
> ( ) The text currently in the HTML5 spec is fine.
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html#table-descriptions
>
> ( ) Something else, described below.
>
> If you said "something else", please describe it here: [_____]
When you guys develop the wording, I'd suggest also having this as an
explicit option:
( ) The text currently in the HTML5 spec is mostly fine, but should in
addition make summary="" conforming for authors without encouraging it
over other options:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html#table-descriptions
I believe this represents the point of view of many Working Group
members better than the first two options, enough that it shouldn't be
just a write-in.
Regards,
Maciej
Received on Monday, 6 July 2009 08:19:54 UTC