- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:36:12 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- cc: www-archive@w3.org
-public-html-a11y, since nobody wants us to resume this flamewar. On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Laura Carlson wrote: > On 11/15/10, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > > When a tool is consistently misused, one can blame the user, but at > > the end of the day one must also consider how to fix the tool. > > The problem is that the tool wasn't fixed. It was thrown away. The tool is HTML. Viewing longdesc="" as the tool is exactly the problem I described. You need to look at the accessibility of the platform as a whole. > Obsolescing longdesc will cause confusion and result in mixed messages > between existing Guidelines, Laws, Policy, and Standards and HTML5. Obsolescing longdesc will improve accessibility. And that's what matters. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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