Re: ACTION-128: Draft @summary voting text in conjunction with PF

Hi Sam,
I was talking about the WCAG 2.0 techniques, technology specific ways to
meet the WCAG 2.0 criteria are in the techniques documents.

*1.3.1 Info and Relationships:* Information,
structure<http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#structuredef>,
and relationships<http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#relationshipsdef>conveyed
through
presentation<http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#presentationdef>can
be programmatically
determined<http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#programmaticallydetermineddef>or
are available in text. (Level A)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#content-structure-separation-programmatic

references > Sufficient Techniques for 1.3.1 - Info and Relationships
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/20081211/#content-structure-separation-programmatic

lists > H73: Using the summary attribute of the table element to give an
overview of data tables
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/html.html#H73
It would be inconsistent if use of the technique is encouraged by WCAG 2.0
 for all other flavours of HTML but discouraged for HTML5.

regards
stevef



2009/7/8 Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>

> 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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