- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:47:23 -0800
- To: love26@gorge.net (William Loughborough)
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
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 -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Sr. Engineering Project Leader, Reef-Edapta http://www.reef.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ Contributor, Special Edition Using XHTML http://kynn.com/+seuxhtml Unofficial Section 508 Checklist http://kynn.com/+section508
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