- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:00:44 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Anthony Quinn <anthony@frontend.ie>
- cc: WAI Mailing list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Anthony, thanks for explaining how this happens. I guess one of the useful things that we can do is identify the kinds of problems that people can face when implementing this stuff. I would generally recommend checking with as many automated tools as you can, not because they are enough to solve the problem but because they pick up a lot of stuff that can easily slip through a manual review - the fiddly little code bits that the tools should take care of. Just for the validator, if you have a javascript-capable browser you can use a bookmarklet to get a validation and an outline of any page, which is a simple, useful check. Add the following to your bookmarks: (long javascript URI) javascript:void(location.href='http://validator.w3.org/check?uri='+escape(document.URL)+'&doctype=Inline&outline=') cheers Charles McCN On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Anthony Quinn wrote: Hi Charles, Thanks for your feedback. I have to admit that we were initially pretty embarrassed about the missing alt attributes when we got your mail. In fairness, it's the cardinal sin. Anyway, we re-traced our steps in the design process to figure out how me let such a seemingly obvious "mistake" slip through. Our reasoning raises some interesting questions. Here's what happened: [explanation snipped]
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