RE: Exploding the myth of automated accessibility checking

And then there is the myth of Joe Clark! http://jimthatcher.com.

Jim
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of Joe Clark
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 3:10 PM
To: WAI-GL
Subject: Re: Exploding the myth of automated accessibility checking


>> It's quite a devastating analysis and calls into question the WCAG
>> Working Group's interest in making as many guidelines as possible
>> machine-checkable.
>
> I thought the requirement was to make guidelines testable, not machine-
> checkable.

The Working Group is resistant to guidelines that require human checking, 
e.g., document semantics. In fact, a co-chair simply dismissed the 
consensus of leading outside experts-- which is typical behaviour for this 
Working Group, but if that's the way you look at human-testable factors, 
of course I'm going to assume you'd really prefer to make "as many 
guidelines as possible machine-checkable."

If I'm wrong about that, let's turn it around. Would you mind terribly if 
I worked on making as many guidelines as possible human-checkable? How 
about 100%?

You wouldn't have a maker of testing software at such a high level in this 
group if it were just another expendable thing you really didn't care much 
about one way or another.

Let us get real here, please.

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