- From: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:20:21 +0200
- To: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Cc: public-wai-ert@w3.org
Hi Christophe, I wonder why your message is not getting through, maybe you are using a different e-mail account than the one you registered? Please let me know if I should add this one to the list (or better replace the old one so you don't receive the messages twice?). Best, Shadi Christophe Strobbe wrote: > > > Hi, > > At 13:42 5/10/2005, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote: > >> Hi Sandor, >> >> Good point. I think both Carlos and Nick were also commenting on that >> issue. Even if tools use the same locator reference, they may still >> use them differently. For example, two tools use XPath but each tool >> has a sightly different XPath expression to point to the same >> location. Also, as Nick pointed out, tools tend to use line numbers >> differently (see example of the validators). >> (...) >> The questions that remain are: >> * What is the impact and severity of inconsistency regarding the >> location? > > > One obvious consequence is that it becomes hard to compare and benchmark > evaluation tools, but that is admittedly a very specific use case of EARL. > > Regards, > > Christophe Strobbe > > -- 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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