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The specification states: "Icons could be auditory icons, visual icons, or other kinds of icons." Are 'auditory icons' meant to be played by the user agent as soon as a page loads? This may clash with AT such as screen readers especially if the audio sample is long. Is there a way to manage this?
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.
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: How icons are used is entirely up to the UA.
http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/44061/20100520_bugs/results Close as far as the HTML bug tracker is concerned. Refer the issue to be addressed in an external user interface recommendations document, initially to be coordinated by the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Aug/0350.html