- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 15:41:13 +1000 (AEST)
- To: WAI Markup Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I would like to reiterate most emphatically the importance of ensuring that the guidelines themselves meet the highest standards of markup. Conformity to the HTML 4.0 strict DTD would be a necessary, though not a sufficient condition for this requirement to be met: there should be no character entities or any other characters used unnecessarily, the markup should convey structure rather than presentation, the table should use HEADERS, SCOPE, and SUMMARY attributes appropriately, etc. The best means of achieving this result is to edit the markup by hand or with an SGML editor (not a web authoring tool). I understand that SGML editors verify compliance with the DTD as one makes changes to the document and can help to ensure that the structure is sound. Please note that in making these remarks, I am not implicitly criticising previous versions of the document. To be frank, I haven't taken the time to examine the markup in detail, but this task must be thoroughly undertaken as part of the preparation of the next draft.
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