- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:14:54 +0100
- To: nir@nirdagan.com (Nir Dagan)
- cc: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
> Two Wishes for Bobby (or any accessibility checker) > > 1. Condition Bobby approval on validation. > A document that is invalid should not > be accessibility-approved. Bobby presently has a "trivial" validator which only looks at element/attribute names, but not content model I think. It could reuse the W3C HTML validator at http://validator.w3.org, either by downloading it (source is open) and running it local or by calling it remotely thru the cgi syntax (we'd need to work together some kind of stable output syntax for the validator, as it's now only meant to be parsed by human). Given the downloadable nature of Bobby, maybe integrating the W3C validator locally is better (the drawback being that everytime the validator is updated, Bobby needs to update its bits). > 2. Spell check. (This now in the guidelines) > Bobby can spellcheck documents (this will make it more > popular, and compensate for the loss of users due to > validation requirements) That's a tough one, spell checking in an international environment (the web) is already hard, but an international techie one is really tricky.
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