- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 15:34:38 -0500 (EST)
- To: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- cc: WAI Markup Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Unfortunately, the definiiton of well-designed on which this relies is not the same as another definition, which has some adherents, and which tests "well-designed" in terms of visual appeal. Personally, I think that is a very poor definition of well-designed, but we should be prepared to explain what we mean and why. Charles On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Jason White wrote: It should be remembered that HTML is an application of SGML (as emphasized in the HTML 4.0 specification). SGML is built upon a separation of content from presentation. A well designed HTML document will therefore conform to the HTML specification (including one of the DTD's) and will use style sheets to control presentation, employ elements and attributes in accordance with their definitions in the specification, etc. Almost by definition, such a document will satisfy many, though not all, accessibility requirements. A well designed document is thus often, though not invariably, accessible. --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
Received on Sunday, 14 March 1999 15:34:50 UTC