RE: Validity as a technique

> I'm not sure I fully understand what - validity as a necessary but 
> not sufficient technique for all the success criteria that require 
> something can be 'programmatically determined' -  means.

Even with the glossary, "programmatically determined" is horribly, horribly opaque.  Even for native English speakers.  Even for native English speakers who are familiar with 508 and WCAG1.  But that is a topic probably best left to another time and thread.

I am not sure the glossary is the best place to address this, but a solution to the question of validity as Level could be as easy as the following amendment:

<blockquote>
Programmatically determined means that the specific value can be determined in a standard, machine or software readable form.  For example, content must pass validity tests for the version of the technology in use (whether it be conforming to a schema, Document Type Definition (DTD), or other tests described in the specification).
</blockquote>

> For example, in the case of table, the caption is programmatically 
> determined, but there is need to check if the caption is good...
> The same with alt attribute, acronym, abbr and every element inside 
> a page.

Yes, exactly correct!  The *omission* of a caption (or whatever) can be programmatically determine.  Okay, so maybe the language isn't the barrier I worry that it might be.  Not that I have any good ideas about how to address that if it is a problem...

Received on Monday, 7 November 2005 18:31:43 UTC