RE: Accessibility Error Messages

Thanks for the response.
Looking at the WCAG, there are only two numbers, such as in the example in
my original message 13.10.  There is no 13.10.1, etc. in WCAG, so I'm kinda
wondering where the 3rd digit comes from.

Initially, I could see where the 4th digit is just a sequential number in
the checks, but there are large gaps between them, suggesting this isn't
sequential.

I guess the bottom line is, is there any important information to be gleaned
from these 3rd and 4th digits?

Karl Groves
AIM/YIM: karlcore
Skype: eight.pistons

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arnaud.desitter@gmail.com [mailto:arnaud.desitter@gmail.com] On
> Behalf Of Arnaud Desitter
> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 1:13 PM
> To: Karl Groves
> Cc: html-tidy@w3.org
> Subject: Accessibility Error Messages
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The code for accessibility testing was done independently of tidy and
> integrated
> later on. Therefore its purpose can be difficult to trace. I think
> that the reference
> document is http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/.
> That is what I added in:
> http://tidy.cvs.sourceforge.net/tidy/tidy/src/access.c?view=markup
> 
> The first three digits relates to the reference document.
> The last digit is related to the test cases. It is rather weird to
> emit it in the
> error messages. Again this was not the choice of any tidy developer.
> 
> Incidentally, the test cases has been added to the tidy distribution a
> while
> back and enhanced since then. As well, some obsolete tests have been
> removed.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> > The documentation at tidy.sourceforge.net links to an excellent resource
> on
> > the error messages returned by Tidy:
> > http://www.aprompt.ca/Tidy/accessibilitychecks.html
> >
> > I have a question, perhaps someone can answer.  How do Tidy's error
> messages
> > map to WCAG?  For instance, I see 13.10.1.1 which essentially matches
> WCAG
> > 13.10 but what do the last two digits represent?
> >
> > Thanks for any help you can provide.
>

Received on Monday, 12 November 2007 02:24:02 UTC