- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <po@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 00:48:52 -0500
- To: "'nir dagan'" <dagan@upf.es>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
In this and related discussions it is important to distinguish between proprietary elements and Old but standard HTML elements. You don't need to use strict HTML 4.0 to avoid proprietary elements. And some sites are forbidden to use any elements not found in 3.2. Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Human Factors Dept of Ind. Engr. - U of Wis. Director - Trace R & D Center Gv@trace.wisc.edu, http:// trace.wisc.edu / FAX 608/262-8848 For a list of our listserves send "lists" to listproc@ trace.wisc.edu -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of nir dagan Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 1998 9:23 PM To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: invalid docs. and WAI guidelines In my view the WAI guidelines try to define what is an accessible HTML document. In order to to that one first has to define what is an HTML document. The approach that I support is to take HTML4.0 as the definition of an HTML document, and restrict attention to accessible documents within this scope. It is possible to write invalid accessible documents. However in order to write a well defined guidelines, there is a need to write a new HTML spec/DTD that takes into account the extentions that we want to consider. For example saying use NOEMBED whenever you use EMBED implies the question "What is the content of NOEMBED and what elements allow NOEMBED as content?" "See Netscape documantation" is not an answer since this documentation tells you that you can write CENTER inside P, and gives <A name="foo"><H1>heading in anchor</H1></A> as an example of how to use anchors. Regards, Nir Dagan. http://www.econ.upf.es/%7Edagan/ dagan@upf.es
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