Re: Exploding the myth of automated accessibility checking

In his follow up, perhaps he could use the tools as they are intended  
to be used.

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On Aug 8, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Joe Clark wrote:


National treasure Gez Lemon wrote a test page with known validation  
and WCAG errors and ran it through various automated checking tools,  
none of which caught more than a few of the errors, if that.

<http://juicystudio.com/article/invalid-content-accessibility- 
validators.php>

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.

He'll have a follow-up next week.
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