- From: Brian Kelly <lisbk@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:21:17 -0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org>
> At 2000-01-20 14:03-0500, Len Kasday wrote: > >There's been a lot of opinions here, including mine, so I just want > >to check something. I think everyone would concur with the following. > > > >1. Making a page valid HTML 4 doesn't guarantee accessibility. > > Right. Even the strict.dtd for HTML 4.0 allows tag abuse and potential Reminds me of the time I was on one of the WWW conference program committees. Authors were instructed to submit papers as valid HTML (2.0 I think it was) documents. One author supplied a paper which consisted of ... <img src="page1.gif" alt="page 1 of paper"> .... <img src="page20.gif" alt="page 1 of paper"> The images (photocopies of hardcopy output) were barely legible. It was pointed out that the author had, in fact, followed the submission guidelines - it was a valid HTML document but not what the program committee had expected. Brian BTW the paper was not accepted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, England, BA2 7AY Email: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Homepage: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/b.kelly.html Phone: 01225 323943 FAX: 01225 826838
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