- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:41:35 +0100
- To: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org
Hi Henri, "stamp of approval" was tongue in cheek. I am not saying that the conformance checker needs to flag these issues, I am only pointing out the limitations of conformance checkers to provide a measure of HTML5 "conformance" other than syntactic. So the holy grail of conformance (to a checker) may well not be real conformance to the requirements in HTML5. PS; think your idea about providing alt checking fetaure in va,idator.nu is would be a useful addition. regards steve On 14/04/2008, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > On Apr 14, 2008, at 17:43, Steven Faulkner wrote: > > So while the web may one day contain many documents that get the HTML5 > > conformance checker "stamp of approval" It will actually be littered > > with non conforming HTML5 documents.. > > > > > Assuming that a conformance checker issue stamps of approval emerges. > > However, regardless alt, there are many other reasons why passing > machine-checkable conformance criteria does not imply that the > non-machine-checkable conformance criteria was passed as well. > > For example, HTML 5 seeks to make layout tables non-conforming, which I > think it is an exercise in futility. Anyway, it isn't machine-checkable. > (WCAG 2.0 allows layout tables and ARIA even caters to them, by the way. > Both pragmatic choices.) > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivonen@iki.fi > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ > > > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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