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Re: Well formed verses Valid code

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From: Roberto Modica
Date: Feb 27, 2007 2:40PM

I believe that validating code is our first step to any sort of quality
assurance that we have when developing websites. From an accessibility
point of view I feel that it is important that new and old developers
validate there code as the starting point of accessibility, ensuring that no
invalid mark-up has any chance of affecting accessibility in any way. The
process is simple and should be part of any developers' workflow, and I
don't believe that validating your pages add significant amount of time to
the development process and should be carried out. If someone is using a
'non-conventional' browser then the potential is there for non-compliance if
validation fails, if we are in control of that then it is something we
should do.

Rob