- From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:18:24 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Lynn Alford wrote: > > I've just been reading http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag20-baseline.php > as part of my 'do I need to make comments on this' work. I am totally > confused by the use of > > Example 1 - Baseline is: HTML 4.01 Transitional > > If the user agent supports this technology, then the content meets WCAG > 2.0 at the level the author claims. > > Now why is this "If the user agent supports this technology"? What > would the user agent have to do with whether the content is HTML 4.01 > transitional? Surely for testable technologies such as HTML 4.01 > transitional, then the process would be submit the content to a > validator for testing? I think the claim is that the content will be accessible if viewed using such a user-agent, but may not be if the user-agent does not support such a level of technology as the content is not fully backwards-compatible.
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