- From: Geoff Deering <geoff@deering.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:55:43 +1000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
There needs to be some balance in all this, and an awareness that there are so many variables when combining both human interaction with various devices and configurations and the way they interpret and present the data. You can't take either to an exclusion of the other without the whole process suffering. Neither device nor human testing is an answer in itself, because a device cannot fully test for human interaction and a human cannot fully test for device interaction (although some sentient compiler/parsers may beg to argue :-) ). There are so many factors that are peculiar to human perception, and there are also so many factors that rely on user agent interpretation and rendering of the data, that there is a need for as much machine testing as is feasible. Both are quite relevant and very important for a WAI practitioners. And both are interdependently tied together, there must be some sort of device in order for the human interaction with web content, even if it's just a printer. Regards Geoff Deering
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