9871 2010-06-07 08:50:14 +0000 provide normative advice to conformance checkers about use of onevent handler attributes 2010-10-12 12:30:41 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified PC Windows NT CLOSED WONTFIX a11y, a11ytf, NE P2 normal --- 1 faulkner.steve ian ian joshue.oconnor laura.lee.carlson mike public-html-a11y public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking rubys public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 36015 0 faulkner.steve 2010-06-07 08:50:14 +0000 Use of event handler attributes (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/index.html#attributes-1) on html elements with strong native semantics should trigger an error as they can and often do overload the default behaviours and semantics of the element, this can cause problems for some users in understanding how to use and interpret the elements as their native sematics do not convey adequately how to interact with the added beahviours and semantics. This issue is partcilularly problematic for users of assitive technology and therefore leads to a reduction in the accessibility of HTML. 36238 1 mike 2010-06-17 15:56:31 +0000 added a11ytf keyword; see http://www.w3.org/2010/06/17-html-a11y-minutes.html for some related discussion 37487 2 ian 2010-08-16 21:34:12 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: onclick attributes have valid use cases, e.g. analytics. While it is certainly true that they are sometimes misused, such misuse is already made non-conforming by the spec and it is impossible for a conformance checker to reliably distinguish such cases from conforming cases. 41095 3 rubys 2010-10-12 12:30:41 +0000 Closed per http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Oct/0135.html