- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:30:16 -0500
- To: "'Tina Holmboe'" <tina@greytower.co.uk>, "'WAI WCAG List'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Being error free is sufficient but not required to meet this SC. What in particular are you concerned about that is a common CSS error that would cause an accessibility problem (that isnt aready addressed by another SC)? Thanks Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. Director - Trace R & D Center University of Wisconsin-Madison The Player for my DSS sound file is at http://tinyurl.com/dho6b > -----Original Message----- > From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On > Behalf Of Tina Holmboe > Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 2:30 AM > To: 'WAI WCAG List' > Subject: Re: CSS Parsed Unambiguously > > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 01:37:31AM -0500, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: > > > I'm not sure I follow the question. > > I can rephrase: > > "Will a CSS file which is syntactically broken according to > CSS 2.1, but which can be unambiguously parsed with the aid > of section 4.2 of same, be able to meet the SC in question?" > > > A syntactically broken CSS file may very well have accessibility > impact - a discarded rule that lead to colour clashes that would > not occur without errors is a straight-forward example. > > The second question is simply this: if the answer to the first > question is "Yes", what, exactly, is measured? > > There can be no doubt what so ever that a broken CSS file can cause > accessibility problems, so wouldn't a more reasonable approach be > to require > > "The syntax of the CSS file must error free." > > or similar for the SC to be passed? > > > -- > - Tina Holmboe Greytower Technologies (UK) Ltd. > tina@greytower.co.uk http://www.greytower.co.uk > +46 708 557 905
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