- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:07:25 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
Ian Hickson wrote: > (I have been informed that in fact the WAI groups are more interested in voting on > whether summary="" is in or out than on voting on what accessibility > solutions should be used to make tables accessible, for instance.) and again. > Can the WAI commit to approaching accessibility issues holistically, > instead of following one-solution agendas as I was recently informed is > explicitly being done with the summary="" issue? What is that supposed to mean? We are /all/ about holistic solutions, however the current vote (as I understand it) is to be about @summary as it currently is. While we (PF) do wish to talk about engineering a better solution (as I am sure we can come up with one) this is /not/ on the table at the moment. Cheers Josh
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