Last week I gave an example of a complex data table marked up with headers and id- apparently OK at first sight. But as the values of id attribute were not unique on the page, the page failed validity test. Screen readers and self voicing browsers did not forgive this lapse and did not associate data cells and header cells as expected. How would one regard this problem? "Alittle problem" from a validity standpoint? Accessibility eval tools do not check for validity problems that result in accessibility problems. So if one does not validate the page before running it through an accessibility eval tool, the problem will go undetected. It is high time that validity be taken more seriously. It is only in authoring Web content invalid code or syntactically incorrect code is acceptable. Other programming languages do not allow even a missing comma or semi colon, etc. The same standards need to be enforced here now. Sailesh Panchang Deque Systems www.deque.com Reston VA spanchang02@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy FootballReceived on Wednesday, 22 June 2005 02:34:24 GMT
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