- From: Maurizio Boscarol <maurizio@usabile.it>
- Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:33:20 +0100
- To: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- CC: "Bailey, Bruce" <Bruce.Bailey@ed.gov>, Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG <rscano@iwa-italy.org>, Yvette Hoitink <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
John M Slatin wrote: >Bruce Bailey wrote: > ><blockquote> >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. ></blockquote> > >The definition of "programmatically determined" most recently accepted >by the Working Group is as follows: ><currentDefinition> >Programmatically determined: >Can be recognized by user agents, including assistive technologies, that >support the technologies in the chosen baseline. ></currentDefinition> > >I hope this is somewhat less opaque. > Thanks, but it's not the meaning of "programmatically determined" that sounded opaque to me. I simply think that validity as a document property isn't necessary to recognize the success criteria that can be programmatically determined. I think that validation as a process is. But it can be also with an invalid page. If the page is invalid for an unclosed br, or a border attribute in img, then the success criteria can still be programmatically determined. Anyway you look at it, it's not validity our topic... it's success criteria. Validation is a way to determine them. Maurizio
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