- From: <lguarino@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:52:55 -0700
- To: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> Some accessibility validators do not check validity, even though > validity is a priority 2 level requirement for WCAG 1.0. At the > moment, validity is considered part of accessibility, and as the > markup validator is an automated checker, to my mind, it belongs in > the results. To me, it's more like comparing a big apple with a little > apple rather than apples and oranges. I appreciate people's mileage > will vary on this issue, in which case they can discard validity if > it's not important to them. Gez, I feel like we are still talking past one another on this point, which is not whether accessibility validators are checking validity properly or completely, or whether validity is important to accessibility. A tool that only purports to check validity, even if it does so perfectly to your expectations, is still not an accessibility checker. I would always expect it to pass some sites that still have accessibility problems. Including it in a list of accessibility checkers seems inappropriate. Maybe it needs an asterisk. By the way, this really is a minor point, and I think your test case is a great piece of work for making concrete many of the issues that we wrestle with in more general terms. Loretta
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