- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:13:15 -0400
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- CC: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
Steven Faulkner wrote: > Hi maciej, > I am concerned that if the current wording of the spec is accepted we > have a situation where one W3C specification - WCAG 2.0 encourages the > use of the summary attribute, while the W3C html 5 specification > discourages it. I've done a quick search, I can't find the text you mentioned: $ curl -s http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ | grep summary | wc -l 0 > For my part, if the HTML WG and WAI could reach a mutual stance on this, > then consensus within the HTML WG would have a better chance of being > reached without the need for a vote. +1 I will note that I would not consider it to be a problem if HTML 5 were consistent with the future direction WCAG 2.0 successors are intending to take, as opposed to what might be stated today. I mean that in the same sense that HTML 5 has a (select few, intentional) differences from HTML 4. > regards > stevef - Sam Ruby
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