- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:36:17 -0400 (EDT)
- To: WAI UA group <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
In the process towards a recommendation, one of the things that supports a document is interoperable implementations. To what extent do we need implementation experience before the document becomes a recommendation, and at what stage of the process? Some thoughts... Implementation is the surest way to test whether a reqirement is feasible (in general - it may still be difficult to implement something within the constraints of a particular piece of code, but in my opinion that is what separates good and bad code, and is largely outside the scope of the group). Partial implementations of the full guidelines can be a useful test - they are much easier to fnd than a single implementation of everything, but they need to be weighed carefully against one another. A lot of the guidelines are already implemented. Are there checkpoints where there is no implementation? Are these things which we know are useful, or are reasonably certain will be? How do we test for implementation? I suggest we look at producing some test suites (I will write a separate thread about this). Charles --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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