- From: Wayne Dick <wed@csulb.edu>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:15:57 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
The text of 1.3.1 is very important for the output of authoring tools. "Information and relationships conveyed through presentation can be programmatically determined." I know the programatically determined term is geeky, but it is the bottom line. When Times New Roman 22 pt. is used instead of Header 2, one cannot identify the context of the content automatically and acurately. That means that a human must be hired to fill in the context that is implied by the presentation. The term programatically determined means that usage can be automatically identified with 100% accuracy. The user interface of authoring tools should encourage authors to produce materials that satisfy this guidline. When Word creates mixed styles because an author uses a named style with a slight varient it encourages this inaccurate markup for output that cannot be fixed mechanically. Wayne Wayne Dick PhD Chair Computer Engineering and Computer Science
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