Thread Subject: Re: Proposal on authoring tools

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From: love26@gorge.net
Date: Thu, Jun 07 2007 11:55 AM

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>From : Peter Korn[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]

I think "forces" or something like it will actually
generate problems in
many situations.

One big concern with #7 is that the "most accessible
authoring action"
is often not testable. It is certainly somewhat
subjective. I think
this has to be advisory, relying on the best judgment
of folks making
the tool.

With #6, we again have a lot of judgment calls
involved in templates -
how many of the templates, how much facilitation?
Things that are
"musts" need to be testable; I don't know how to test
this.

In a certain sense ALL of this stuff is to some
extent "subjective" and much of what we prescribe
isn't strictly "testable" but what I'm trying to get
across is that the "best judgement of folks making
the tool" has proved that it's somewhat like leaving
the foxes as security guards for the henhouse.

The main reason we have to go through these exercises
is that the "folks making the tool" have been at the
very least resistive (obstructive?) about providing
universal inclusion in the accessibility sense, else
there'd be no problem.

I clearly meant "forces" to be a draconian boundary
case of choices of wording but somehow a breakthrough
in this has to be sought or we will continue to have
"save as HTML" selections that lead to absurd
implementations.

Love.

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