- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 19:46:15 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Nick Kew wrote: >On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > >> For most people, learning accessibility testing is very difficult. Just using >> the list of checkpoints is almost impossible without already knowing what is >> in the techniques documents, and knowing some stuff that could be added to >> them. > >I'd say also very tedious to do with any degree of thoroughness: >a recipe for oversights! Oh yes, I particularly appreciate this. (It's why I use WYSIWYG editing tools and then machine test their XHTML if needed rather than edit code by hand myself). >> People have from time to time misunderstood or misused the information they >> get from tools - this is something we need to keep thinking about. > >Yes. The spellcheck is a useful analogy: the limitations on what it >can do are broadly comparable, and are familiar to anyone likely to >be using web-accessibility tools. Yes, nice analogy. Chaals
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