- From: Derek Featherstone <feather@wats.ca>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:18:11 -0400
- To: "'Jesper Tverskov'" <jesper.tverskov@mail.tele.dk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Jesper et al, I've taken one piece from your original message and replaced some key phrases with X to illustrate: Maybe it is more realistic in many situations to leave X to user agents than to expect web page authors to do the job. Web page authors should probably still X in web content made by themselves, but it is probably much more convenient and realistic to leave this task to user agents for many types of generated content. Why not leave the job of X to a handful of user agents and save millions of web page authors for a lot of work? That's where this argument falls down for me. Should we create user agents that recognize that someone has used <font size="6"> </font> and automatically convert them to a proper heading? I don't think so, and I certainly think they same holds true for language. Ultimately for accessibility to "work" we all have a part to play. Yes, we need smarter user agents. Yes, we need smarter authoring tools. But we also need smarter authors that do their job by doing the right thing. Sure we could write user agents that make guesses on language switches, but why would we want to rely on "guessing", when we can just as easily tell the user agent precisely which language to use? It just doesn't make sense to me... Best regards, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone feather@wats.ca Web Accessibility Specialist / Co-founder of WATS.ca http://www.wats.ca Tel: 613.599.9784 Toll-free: 1.866.932.4878 (North America)
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