- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 16:59:24 -0600
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Sun, 06 May 2007 20:18:46 +0200, James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > I would venture that as far as possible we should be trying to make the > lanuge such that increased accessibility is the happy byproduct of > authors optimizing their markup for common cases (graphical browsers, > search engines, etc.) rather than something that has to be considered > separately. Of course this will not always be possible but we should > strive for solutions where this is the case Indeed > and, given a straight trade > off between markup that meets 90% of the accessibility requirements and > will be used correctly by most authors and markup that meets 100% of the > requirements but will only be used correctly by those with a special > interest in producing accessible pages, we should choose the former on > the basis that it will tend to produce more accessible content in general. This sort of case needs to be examined on a specific basis, since problems in accessibility are often not simply a case of pass or fail, but of the extent to which it affects people, and whom it affects... cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk chaals@opera.com Catch up: Speed Dial http://opera.com
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