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Re: Placeholder and Accessible Name Computation

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From: Steve Green
Date: May 9, 2019 6:03AM

Thanks for the explanation for the change. However, it is still not at all clear how anyone is supposed to know which is the definitive version of the spec when there are similar, but different, versions with the same version number on different websites. I would have thought that the W3C website contains the definitive version but apparently not.

This really does need to be made very clear because when we conduct WCAG audits we make recommendations for changes that cost time and money to implement, not to mention the political cost of persuading stakeholders that the changes are necessary. This is made all the more difficult if people opposed to the changes can point to documents that appear to contradict us.

Steve