- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:11:07 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > 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: [_____] In this case, you have now excluded the option of making summary non-conforming, and left two options that say conforming and encouraged, and conforming but discouraged. To be fair, we need an option for non-conforming to be included in the vote. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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