Re: Meta-Guidelines for Markup Language Design

Hmm. I think the PF group was where we decided this work should be done.

But I think that writing them specificaly to make HTML (or whatever) pass
them would be a gross betrayal of the trust people have in us. I also don't
think that if they are incomplete (I can in fact think of examples where HTML
is incomplete straight away) that they are not unusable.

Cheers

Charles McCN



On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Kynn Bartlett wrote:

  A thought on guidelines for designing accessible languages:
  
  What do we do if (when) we find that HTML/XHTML doesn't properly
  follow these guidelines?  Do we write them in such a way that
  HTML/XHTML (and SVG, and other W3C technologies) will "pass", or
  do we write them without consideration of existing W3C
  recommendations and risk that we may be labeling some of those
  existing technologies as "incomplete" (and thus possibly
  unusable) for accessibility's sake?
  
  --Kynn
  

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