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    <bug>
          <bug_id>20305</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2012-12-08 11:02:50 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>Merge branch &apos;feature/whatwg_validator&apos; introduces non conforming advice</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2013-05-13 12:06:35 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>HTML WG</product>
          <component>HTML5 spec</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>PC</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>Windows NT</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>FIXED</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/ce89d21a56ae0b682e9bd5cf9d6ddd4397290594</bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords>CR</keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="steve faulkner">faulkner.steve</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Silvia Pfeiffer">silviapfeiffer1</assigned_to>
          <cc>mike</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-admin</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-wg-issue-tracking</cc>
    
    <cc>robin</cc>
    
    <cc>silviapfeiffer1</cc>
          
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    <commentid>79751</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="steve faulkner">faulkner.steve</who>
    <bug_when>2012-12-08 11:02:50 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Merge branch &apos;feature/whatwg_validator&apos;:

&lt;p&gt;For images that have captions, markup generators should use the

  	28475 	

+  &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;figcaption&lt;/code&gt; elements, or the

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+  &lt;code title=&quot;attr-title&quot;&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; attribute, to provide the

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+  image&apos;s caption.&lt;/p&gt;

advice to use title as a caption is non conforming. suggest

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- &lt;code title=&quot;attr-title&quot;&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; attribute,</thetext>
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    <commentid>79753</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Silvia Pfeiffer">silviapfeiffer1</who>
    <bug_when>2012-12-08 11:32:52 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Planning to remove this part of the sentence with next weeks&apos; patches.</thetext>
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    <commentid>81691</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Robin Berjon">robin</who>
    <bug_when>2013-01-21 15:58:41 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Mass move to &quot;HTML WG&quot;</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>81809</commentid>
    <comment_count>3</comment_count>
    <who name="Robin Berjon">robin</who>
    <bug_when>2013-01-21 16:01:27 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Mass move to &quot;HTML WG&quot;</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>87596</commentid>
    <comment_count>4</comment_count>
    <who name="Silvia Pfeiffer">silviapfeiffer1</who>
    <bug_when>2013-05-13 12:06:35 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>EDITOR&apos;S RESPONSE: This is an Editor&apos;s Response to your comment. If
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Status: Accepted (sorry about the delay)

Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/ff3af4f6b41a06c4d66ced02c7d1abaf41191b60

Rationale: @title attribute is not recommended for image captions because it is not properly exposed to keyboard-only users,  mobile, tablet and assistive technology users</thetext>
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