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Bug 7144 - I am not sure if we are ditching ALT in favour of legend. You don't make this clear here. Some of your alt examples here resemble longdesc, which I am in favour of ditching completely. I'd be interested to see your answer on whatwg list about this
Summary: I am not sure if we are ditching ALT in favour of legend. You don't make this...
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/curr...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y, a11y_text-alt, NoReply
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-07-25 23:35 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:55 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-07-25 23:35:08 UTC 
Section: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#a-key-part-of-the-content

Comment:
I am not sure if we are ditching ALT in favour of legend. You don't make this clear here. Some of your alt examples here resemble longdesc, which I am in favour of ditching completely. I'd be interested to see your answer on whatwg list about this 

Posted from: 58.109.112.52
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-08-09 22:53:34 UTC 
Responded on whatwg list as requested.
Comment 2 Michael Cooper 2010-02-11 17:26:23 UTC 
Per the proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Jan/0245.html, the HTML A11Y TF does not plan to formally work on this issue at this time. This does not mean the TF has no interest in it, but does not have immediate plans to work on it. The TF may review the issue in the future.
Comment 3 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-14 14:48:31 UTC 
This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy.

If you are satisfied with the resolution of this bug, 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

This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment.