- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 15:04:00 +0200
- To: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>
- Cc: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org
David Poehlman wrote: > Philip has this correct. There are many instances in which a requirement > for validation is removed from the authoring path. No, he doesn't. Whoever is in control of making changes to the page should be sufficient, even if they weren't the original author of the page. Optimising for edge cases is not a reasonable thing to do. Besides, if the aim is to check the how appropriate the alt text is for a page, then it doesn't matter what the HTML5 spec says. Evaluating accessibility is a largely non-machine checkable exercise and trying to grind the conformance criteria down to a boolean yes/no answer that can be offered by a machine does little to improve accessibility. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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