- From: Carlos A Velasco <Carlos.Velasco@fit.fraunhofer.de>
- Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:19:27 +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>, Maurizio Boscarol <maurizio@usabile.it>, Yvette Hoitink <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Hi John, John M Slatin wrote: > ... > > 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. When you combine that definition with that of the baseline at: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/#baselinedef> "Set of technologies assumed to be supported by, and enabled in, user agents in order for Web content to conform to these guidelines." Things do not get more clear to us. Is the WG stating that if some UA can deal "ad infinitum" with tag-soups (and/or invalid content), then things can be programmatically determined, even when those less forgiving UAs can't? Or "user agents" means: all UAs? Could not this become again another kind of "Until user agents ..."? Sorry for opening another Pandora's Box, but if we discussion is shifting from validity (more accurately, we shall say spec conformance) to the implications of programmatically determined, IMHO things are not getting more clear. regards, carlos PS: And may God help us when we have to translate "programmatically determined" to other languages. -- Dr Carlos A Velasco - http://access.fit.fraunhofer.de/ Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik FIT [Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT)] Barrierefreie Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie für Alle Schloss Birlinghoven, D53757 Sankt Augustin (Germany) Tel: +49-2241-142609 Fax: +49-2241-1442609
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