- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:42:34 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
I'd like to ask, at this point, if we have consensus on the new state of the spec on this, and can forgo a vote. - Maciej On Jul 8, 2009, at 1:31 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > Joshue, > > Given the recent changes to the spec, two of the options I previously > suggested for the vote are now equivalent, so I propose we change the > options we propose to the working group this Thursday to: > > 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, discouraging summary="" > but > encouraging other mechanisms for describing tables, 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: [_____] > > I think if we have these options we should definitely also include a > 150-word essay for each of the first two options, written by > proponents of > those options, that argue each case, so that people who aren't > familiar > with the issues can read up on them before voting. > > What do you think? Is this what we should propose to the working > group? > Sam informs me that we're supposed to decide this by tomorrow > (Thursday), > for presentation to the group by the conference call. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E ) > \._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _ > \ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'-- > (,_..'`-.;.' >
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