DTDs and validation RE: New Working Draft

It is possible to use BGSOUND in a way which is accessible, which is to
use it in conjunction with alternate presentation(s) of the content
pointed to by the BGSOUND element.

While BGSOUND does not, as far as I know, provide by itself any way to
introduce that content, I don't see any difficulty in using BGSOUND in an
authoring tool where the necessary alternative content is made available
in a way consistent with W3C DTDs (for example, a textual transcript being
made available. Some of this is provided in a way which may appeal to more
designers by the OBJECT element of HTML 4, since it allows for cleaner
presentation of a range of alterntive content types.



On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, B.K. DeLong wrote:

  At 03:21 PM 3/11/99 -0800, Charles Oppermann wrote:
  >I agree that the tool should not write out HTML markup that causes
  >accessibility difficulties, but that is a very different issue than writing
  >out markup that isn't part of a W3C recommendation and they should not be
  >tied together.
  
  Then we need to make sure somewhere in the "validation and checking
  section," the authoring tool mentiones that certain elements specific to a
  single browser are not accessible....like BGSOUND.
  --
  B.K. DeLong                  360 Huntington Ave.
  Director                         Suite 140CSC-305
  New England Chapter     Boston, MA 02115
  World Organization        (617) 247-3753
  of Webmasters
  
  http://www.world-webmasters.org
  bkdelong@naw.org
  

--Charles McCathieNevile            mailto:charles@w3.org
phone: +1 617 258 0992   http://www.w3.org/People/Charles
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative    http://www.w3.org/WAI
MIT/LCS  -  545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139,  USA