- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:55:59 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <unagi69@concentric.net>
- cc: Evaluation & Repair Interest Group <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>, Authoring Tools Guidelines List <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Is it satisfactory to resolve this by proposing the use of online services or of external tools and plug-ins as a technique? Charles McCN On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote: aloha, y'all! in considering the question "what dependencies exist between ER and the Authoring Tool Guidelines (AUGL)?" i have concluded that there is at least one clear cut dependency, namely the possibility of rolling an existing evaluation and repair tool into an authoring tool, so as to allow the user to retrofit existing pages/sites, as well as providing accessibility checks and validation for newly created pages/sites... the evaluation and repair tool (ERT) need not -- and probably should not -- be bundled into the authoring tool, but, rather, should be accessed online, thereby ensuring that the authoring tool is making the latest version of an ERT available to the user, rather than saddling the author with an antedated pre-packaged version... there is precedent for such an integration -- Allaire's HomeSite, for example, allows one to use some online utilities/engines to check things such as broken links, so why shouldn't an authoring tool also make an online ERT available to its users? providing a mechanism whereby your pages and/or sites can be checked via an online ERT is an easy out for smaller developers who can't afford to develop and maintain their own ERT, but who want to satisfy as much of the AUGL as possible with the programming time available to them... as for where this fits into AUGL, i'd say Guideline 4: "Provide methods of checking and correcting inaccessible content" http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990903/#gl-identify-markup gregory -------------------------------------------------------- He that lives on Hope, dies farting -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1763 -------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net> President, WebMaster, & Minister of Propaganda, VICUG NYC <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/> -------------------------------------------------------- --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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