[html4all] alt issue raised on HTML issue tracker

[Steven Faulkner]

Hi John,

I am glad the PFWG has responded to the alt issue, but i don't think that
the tone you are using is useful or productive (even in jest), we need to be
working with the other members of the working group not throwing "salvos".

In regards to the id/headers issue one thing i picked up from the face2face
is that j graham and ben have been doing some great work on making the
tables algorithm work much better so that in many cases (note i say many not
all) the use of id/headers will not be needed.
That is not to say that it should be abandoned and from what i remember j
graham and ben thought along similar lines.
one of the things that struck me was that it appears (from my understanding
of what interrogation features are offered) that screen reader vendors have
not even implemented the html4 tables algorithm.

On 07/02/2008, John Foliot <foliot at wats.ca> wrote:
>
> Joshue O Connor wrote:
> > Steven Faulkner wrote:
> >> for those who may miss it:
> >> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/31
> >
> > Good stuff Steve and thanks also to Laura for bringing this up as an
> > issue. I also with to bring @summary up as an issue when the time is
> > right.
> >
>
> The time is now <grin>.
>
> With the first response formally posted by PFWG, it's time we feed them a
> new one, and summary is as good as any other of our concerns.  I think we
> need to also apply ourselves to @headers/@id for complex tables, but
> either
> would be a good second salvo.
>
> JF
>
>
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with regards

Steve Faulkner
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Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

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