- From: Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpatrick@macromedia.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:15:40 -0800
- To: "Bailey, Bruce" <Bruce.Bailey@ed.gov>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> 22. The evidence is that the one-way statistical correlation > between sites that are valid to those that are accessible is > too overwhelming to be explained away by the hypotheses offered. Sure, there may be a correlation, but given that we've established that sites with validity issues can also be accessible, it is not a causal relationship between validity and accessibility. The correlation may be caused if the careful, professional developers who choose to attend to validity are more likely to also attend to accessibility. What would be interesting to see is a study of sites where the developer had accessibility as a goal and those sites divided into two groups - those where validity was or was not an additional goal. That would be a fairer comparison that would remove the mass of developers who care neither about validity nor accessibility. AWK
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