- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:59:42 +0200
- To: "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
On Mon, 25 May 2009 22:36:02 +0200, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: > There are a couple of ancillary explicit references in the html-public > archive regarding table summary and cowpaths. But are absolutely > right, Anne, cowpaths were referred to more implicitly in that > specific accessibility debate. People haven’t said "cowpaths" that > much out loud in that debate but they have said repeatedly that pretty > much all screen readers support @summary [], including older versions > which they said means there is already an audience of assistive > technology users out there who can use it, today. You know that paving the cowpaths is not directly about user agent support and users, right? > The cowpath principle has been argued more explicitly in other debates > but implicitly it is usually always there. I did not have that feeling, but I must admit I have not read every email carefully. > [...] I do not have anything to contribute to the wiki and I cannot really tell whether anything is missing or not. Sorry about that. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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