- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:22:15 -0400
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: Authoring Tools Guidelines List <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>, Evaluation & Repair Interest Group <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
aloha, charles! Charles asked: >Is it satisfactory to resolve this by proposing the use of online services or >of external tools and plug-ins as a technique? well, when i originally wrote up my potential dependency statement, i ended with the phrase: "hmm... am i getting soft in my old age, or just realpolitiky?" but to answer your question, i think that resolution can be achieved by proposing the use of online services as a technique -- i'm not so confident about including external tools or plugins, however, unless the external tool or plugin has a built-in "Check for Update" option (or, at the very least, if such an update option for the ERT is available via the AU tool) to me, the essential point is getting _some_ sort of ER capacity built-into AU tools, and whilst i personally don't know if this is the optimal solution, it _is_ a potential solution (or, if you prefer, kludge) yes, it ties the evaluation of a work-in-progress to an online entity, which requires that the author be connected to the internet when running the evaluation, but it also keeps the ERT from becoming stale and out-moded, which is -- at least in my opinion -- a greater threat to accessibility than having to be online when one wants to evaluate the accessibility of one's work... 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/> --------------------------------------------------------
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