- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:52:35 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Cc: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, William Loughborough <wloughborough@gmail.com>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Shelley Powers wrote: > > Ian is fully aware of the issues, reasons, and so on. If he isn't I > suggest he spend time searching on @summary in these lists. Maybe I missed an important e-mail. Could you point me to the e-mail that shows the reasoning and data behind the idea that including and continuing to encourage authors to use the summary="" attribute would improve overall accessibility of the Web beyond the status quo? The position argued, in detail, with data [1] to support the current text in the specification is that encouraging the summary="" attribute to be used actually harms the overall accessibility of the Web. To my knowledge, nobody has provided a sound counter-argument to this. If I have missed such a counter-argument, please send me a link. The e-mail cited above includes explicit statements regarding the kind of data and explanations that would lead to a substantial change in the document I am editing. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jul/0148.html -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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