- From: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:59:43 +0100
- To: Carlos A Velasco <Carlos.Velasco@fit.fraunhofer.de>
- Cc: public-wai-ert-tools@w3.org
Hi, Carlos A Velasco wrote: > I propose we drop Dr. Watson <http://watson.addy.com/> from the list of > accessibility tools. The reasons are manifold: > > - It is not an accessibility tool: it does not do any accessibility check. Agreed, it does not seem to do accessibility evaluation. > - It is buggy and obsolete: it complains about lowercase HTML elements, > and reports XHTML documents as being erroneous. FYI, I disagree with this observation. The tool seems to be actively maintained and it is not up to us determine the quality of it. Regards, Shadi -- Shadi Abou-Zahra, Web Accessibility Specialist for Europe Chair and Team Contact for the Evaluation and Repair Tools WG World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), http://www.w3.org/ Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), http://www.w3.org/WAI/ WAI-TIES Project, http://www.w3.org/WAI/TIES/ Evaluation and Repair Tools WG, http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/ 2004, Route des Lucioles -- 06560, Sophia-Antipolis -- France Voice: +33(0)4 92 38 50 64 Fax: +33(0)4 92 38 78 22
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