- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 01:32:48 -0400
- To: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
aloha, jason! Jason White wrote, quote 3. With respect to the XHTML requirements, how many of these are simply needed to ensure validity, and how many are truly access-related? Consider combining HTML and XHTML, noting their differences where relevant, instead of creating two lists of checkpoints. unquote i'd be glad to work on combining the 2 -- especially as it fits in with one of the action items wendy assigned me a few weeks ago... i do think that validity needs to be stressed, especially in light of the understandable urge to integrate discussion of HTML, XHTML, and CSS -- true, a valid document isn't necessarily an accessible document, but accessibility does begin with validity -- especially when stylesheets are to be applied and when XHTML documents are parsed by XML-based implementations... plus, the examples provide us with a bully pulpit to stress use of attributes such as "title" for horizontal rules, "longdesc" and the like... gregory.
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