RE: Checkpoint on testability

William, 

	It would be a great tool to be able to search for educational materials
and be able to choose those with illustrations (number of illustrations
would be nice to know, as would some designation of "reading level"/target
audience) ... 

							Anne

At 12:20 PM 12/22/00 -0800, William Loughborough wrote:
> At 01:50 PM 12/22/00 -0800, Anne Pemberton wrote:
> "" which aren't machine testable
> ""
> 
>"""""""", etc. We are on the same train here. Inclusion of testability is a
>way to enable a teacher to determine if the site has a means to determine
>if it follows any particular guideline that's of interest to the potential
>user. 
> 
>"""""if you can't get at it to test (this includes subjective tests claimed
>to be made by the author), then it suffers in the accessibility department.
>In other words, in addition to having appropriate illustrations it must be
>able to allow you to find out that it claims (or has) such illustrations.
>It matters, even (or especially) for conforming sites to assert their
>conformance as well as provide a way to test the assertions thereto. 
> 
>"""" or whatever. The underlying machine-readable gobbledygook won't get
>your attention any more than the header associated with your email like
>your last one:
>
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> You didn't have to write any of that but it's all there for machines to
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Anne L. Pemberton
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Received on Friday, 22 December 2000 19:08:35 UTC