[html4all] html authoring guidelines

[Steven Faulkner]

My initial suggestion was not talking about doing a seperate document, I
specifically said
"Contributing to this " meaning the  proposed html authoring guide.

The spec as it stands has some advice about accessible authoring
practice (see the stuff on images
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-img.
This content if it is meant for authors rather than browser
implementors (as is my understanding of what the spec is for), should
be included in a document that authors are more likely to read.


On 23/11/2007, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals at opera.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:55:26 +0100, Jason White <jason at jasonjgw.net> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:31:56AM +0000, Steven Faulkner wrote:
> >
> >> Contributing to this and ensuring that accessible authoring practices
> >> are included would be worthwhile.
> >>
> >> any thoughts?
> >
> > Yet another set of authoring guidelines?
> >
> > My preference would be for a single, unified set of authoring guidelines
> > covering the following:
> >
> > 1. Internationalization.
> >
> > 2. Mobile devices.
> >
> > 3. Accessibility.
> >
> > 4. Other recommended practices.
> >
> > This should be a W3C note, or written outside the W3C context
>
> I am pretty much 100% in agreement with Jason. I certainly don't think it
> is very useful to try and make something like this a recommendation - I
> think it is too complex to justify the effort of getting complete
> agreement and structuring for conformance testing etc.
>
> That said, it is useful. I would suggest, where possible, contributing
> directly to the work in the HTML WG. Having lots of seperate groups
> working in parallel is not really optimal in many ways - it makes the
> discussion more or less impossible to follow, which in turn effectively
> reduces the transparency of the process.
>
> cheers
>
> Chaals
>
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with regards

Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG Europe
Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

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