- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:56:11 -0600
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
Hi Ian, > nobody wants us to resume this flamewar. On that we can agree. The issue is beyond that. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Aug/0027.html Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson On 11/16/10, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > -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. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > -- Laura L. Carlson
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