[WSG] Does the HTML working group have to take into account accessibility guidelines?

2007-08-30 Thread Steven Faulkner
alastair campbell wrote: Does the HTML working group have to take into account accessibility guidelines? What I mean is, does it have to make alt mandatory because WCAG (any version) does? I asked around and got some answers that may answer your question: Charles McCathieNevile wrote: The

Re: [WSG] Does the HTML working group have to take into account accessibility guidelines?

2007-08-30 Thread Andrew Cunningham
That's the crux with HTML 5. Some aspects of it will take us forward. And quite a few aspects will be backwards steps. The accessibility and internationalization aspects of HTML 5 are going to be very interesting to say the least. Andrew Steven Faulkner wrote: alastair campbell wrote: