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Bug 7539 - Since @summary is an official part of the table element, it is no longer obsolete. Suffienct warning language exists in it's definition that this entry should be removed
Summary: Since @summary is an official part of the table element, it is no longer obso...
Status: RESOLVED 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, a11ytf, a11y_table_summary, PFWG, WGDecision
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-09-07 20:29 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-04-13 00:06 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-09-07 20:29:34 UTC 
Section: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#warnings-for-obsolete-but-conforming-features

Comment:
Since @summary is an official part of the table element, it is no longer obsolete.  Suffienct warning language exists in it's definition that this entry should be removed

Posted from: 67.188.142.142
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-09-22 10:26:19 UTC 
It's not warning text (that would be class=warning, it's red if you have a visual UA), it's just a note reminding authors of another thing that generates a mandatory warning.
Comment 2 Shelley Powers 2009-09-22 13:16:10 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> It's not warning text (that would be class=warning, it's red if you have a
> visual UA), it's just a note reminding authors of another thing that generates
> a mandatory warning.
> 

Telling authors that the use will issue a conformance warning _is_ a warning, regardless of text color.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-09-22 21:18:42 UTC 
I believe that a reminder is appropriate here. If you disagree, please feel free to escalate  this to the chairs.
Comment 4 Shelley Powers 2009-09-22 21:26:17 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> I believe that a reminder is appropriate here. If you disagree, please feel
> free to escalate  this to the chairs.
> 

It has already been escalated to an Issue, and will continue to be LC blocking issue. 

Note, though, that this bug did not address whether the text was a "warning" or a "reminder" (and you need to consider people being color blind with your use of color). The bug focuses specifically on removing summary from the Conforming but obsolete section.
Comment 5 Michael Cooper 2010-02-04 16:42:40 UTC 
Removing myself from cc list, default on bug edits is to add, but I'm only acting on behalf of HTML A11Y TF which is already cc'd.
Comment 6 Michael Cooper 2010-02-11 17:17:56 UTC 
The HTML Accessibility Task Force intends to track these issues, per the proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Jan/0245.html.
Comment 7 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-14 14:50:48 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.
Comment 8 Laura Carlson 2010-03-15 12:33:16 UTC 
Added TrackerIssue keyword as this is part of Tracker ISSUE-32
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/32
Comment 9 Michael[tm] Smith 2010-03-18 15:46:23 UTC 
Reopened per discussion on a11y TF telcon 2010-03-18
Comment 10 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-18 17:21:10 UTC 
This is tagged TrackerIssue. A big that has been escalated should not also be reopened. Back to VERIFIED.
Comment 11 Sam Ruby 2011-04-06 00:49:47 UTC 
Working Group Decision: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0091.html
Comment 12 contributor 2011-04-13 00:06:35 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5999.
Check-in comment: apply wg decision
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5998&to=5999