Re: Validity as a technique

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lisa Seeman" <lisa@ubaccess.com>
To: "Yvette Hoitink" <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>; <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 5:26 AM
Subject: Re: Validity as a technique


>
>> I propose to delete the requirement for validity from our guidelines and
>> instead list it as a necessary but not sufficient technique for all the
>> success criteria that require something can be 'programmatically
>> determined'. I think this would solve many of the problems:
>
>
> I don't think this will work because  the whole document needs to be 
> machine parse - able and hence valid, not just specific sections of the 
> document.
>
> On the other hand  techniques tend to refer to sections of content that 
> have a specific element or type of content. Adding  validation to 
> techniques will blur the need of full document validation.
>
> All the best
> Lisa
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:35:49 UTC