RE: Checkpoint on testability

At 01:33 PM 12/22/2000 , William Loughborough wrote:
>The Web will be significantly more accessible (especially/including) for PWDs if: 1) its contents are properly indexed; 2) the accessibility status of the contents are determinable *before* access is attempted.
>That's my story and I'm sticking by it. At least so far!

Isn't that a conformance issue, though?  Seeing as no 'agent' can
adequately measure accessibility by itself, you would instead be
relying on self-reported claims of compliance.  If the accuracy
of those claims can be guaranteed (which is iffy), then they can
be relied upon.  But it's not possible to verify accessibility
status automatically, is it?

Therefore, claims will have to be trusted, although they should be
challengeable.  (There's a good proposed conformance scheme 
requirement:  a way to challenge a conformance claim.)

--Kynn

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Received on Friday, 22 December 2000 16:48:53 UTC