R: [wbs] Roberto Castaldo response to 'EOWG Call for Review: Evaluation Resource Suite, 2005 September'

Hi Shadi,

I clearly see your point, but I think we all - every day - have to "fight"
against crowds of web developers and web project managers who hide
themselves behind a Bobby (or any ather kind of tool) response and avoid
even to look at all the (manual) warnings that any tool can provide.

So this is a good chance to make (or try to) everyone understand that a
semi-automated tool cannot do everything... What about emphatizing both
words, "not determine"? 

Anyway, should you and the editors decide not to apply this change, no
problem at all... it is just a simple suggestion which doesn't want to
undervalue the document's quality and its effectiveness.

My best regards,

Roberto Castaldo
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Coordinatore www.Webaccessibile.Org
IWA/HWG Member
rcastaldo@webaccessibile.org
r.castaldo@iol.it
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-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Shadi Abou-Zahra [mailto:shadi@w3.org] 
Inviato: venerd́ 16 settembre 2005 10.00
A: r.castaldo@iol.it
Cc: wai-eo-editors@w3.org
Oggetto: Re: [wbs] Roberto Castaldo response to 'EOWG Call for Review:
Evaluation Resource Suite, 2005 September'

Hi Roberto,

Thank you for reading the documents and completing the WBS form. Since we
are already clearly emphasizing the word "not" in the header of this
section, re-emphasizing it in the last sentence may be too negative. Also,
we are emphasizing the word "determine" in that sentence which I think has
higher importance for the message we want to convey. Do you agree?


WBS Mailer on behalf of <r.castaldo@iol.it> wrote:
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> Selecting Tools page
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> 
> 
> Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): 
> priority: [editor's discretion]
> location: paragraph "What evaluation tools can not do"
> current wording: Web accessibility evaluation tools can not determine 
> the accessibility of Web sites, they can only assist in doing so.
> suggested revision: Web accessibility evaluation tools can <i>not</i> 
> determine the accessibility of Web sites, they can only assist in 
> doing so.
> rationale: I'd like to put in evidence the word "not", in order to 
> make also visually clear the limitation we're talking about.

Regards,
  Shadi


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