- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 16:11:12 +0100
- To: "James Graham" <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, public-html@w3.org, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org
hi J graham, >That doesn't seem so far away from many other non-machine checkable > conformance requirements in the spec. Seems like a good reason to revisit any examples of requirements in the spec and provide requirements that are practical to independently test conformance , rather than make requirements that cannot be tested by anybody other than the author. regards stevef On 21/05/2008, James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Steven Faulkner wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > I really would like to know why you have included a conformance > > requirement in the spec, that is impossible to check without having to > > talk to the author? > > > > That doesn't seem so far away from many other non-machine checkable > conformance requirements in the spec. For example, similar out of band > information would be needed to check that the contents of the <address> > element were really intended to be "the contact information for the section > it applies to". > > > -- > "Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?" > -- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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