- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 13:41:02 +0200 (CEST)
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
On 18 Jun, Luca Mascaro wrote: > About this thematic, why we don't ask an officially opinion to HTML WG? I just wonder what, exactly we should ask them? Whether or not invalid code, triggering "let's guess at what the REAL structure should be" mode in user-agents, have an impact on accessibility? Following the discussion over the last days has left me confused. Invalid code - in particular invalid markup - does, to a greater or a lesser extent, influence how a user-agent - ANY user-agent - parse and "perceive" the structure and semantics[*] of a document. That influence clearly impact upon accessibility - to some degree. Guessing what is, and isn't, rarely give rise to good handling of information. So what do we ask them? [*] This is a classic, real life, example: <p> First part of the paragraph goes here. <hr> Second part of the paragraph goes here. </p> Error-correcting the above leaves the information - logically *one* piece - split into *two*. By no means a major problem, but still a problem; and one which might, given the right circumstances, be an accessibility hazard. -- - Tina Holmboe Greytower Technologies tina@greytower.net http://www.greytower.net/ [+46] 0708 557 905
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