Re: Question on 4.1.1 Parsing - what it covers


> On Jan 12, 2016, at 12:28, Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL <ryladog@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Do we as the Working Group consider 4.1.1 Parsing to include ONLY the 4 specific examples identified in the Success Criteria, or, do we believe that 4.1.1 Parsing to includes those 4 examples plus other things where parsing failures might affect AT?  (I know that a doctype declaration is NOT a parsing failure).

I think the language of 4.1.1 is clear: anything which meets the four stated requirements thereby satisfies the success criterion. This might be enough to satisfy lawyers and others concerned with the accuracy of conformance claims, but there may be cases of markup which is not well formed in ways that create accessibility barriers, without breaching 4.1.1. Are you aware of any good examples?

It’s also possible that the problems with the markup result in a failure to meet a different success criterion than 4.1.1 if they yield access issues for AT users. Thus I would suggest checking for failures elsewhere in WCAG that are induced by the shortcomings in the markup.


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