- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:22:45 +0300
- To: WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Some weeks ago Geoff Deering started a thread on the upgrade done by The Age (the newspaper I happen to read). The upshot was that they had moved to table-free design, and were working towards real conformance to standards, but there were still a few implementation bugs. They haven't got there yet - there are some major validity bugs which I suspect come from their content management system leaving in proprietary tags (BOD, and similar), some problems with getting elements and attributes in lower case as required by XHTML, and a few others. I actually did a reasonably substantial evaluation (about 50 WCAG checkpoints) of the Front page [1], using Hera [2]. Although they don't meet any conformance level, they met about 3/4 of the checkpoints I tested at all priority levels, and some of the failures were not ones that would make a huge difference to users. (Some were, depending on what the user is looking for...). If anyone wants to see my detailed results, let me know. Cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile charles@sidar.org Fundción Sidar http://www.sidar.org
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