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RE: Online survey of syntactic analysis tool use

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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Feb 28, 2002 9:13AM

Richard,

It never ceases to amaze me how people who proporte to work in the
accessibility arena, especially in web development/delivery, appear to me to
be talking through their hat. I have visited your website and make the
following observations:

1) I am using IE 6, yet your "sniffer (http://66.70.103.213/alert.asp)"
tells me I am using an old brower. The script you are using is WRONG and
should be updated as IE 6 is the DEFAULT BROWSER SHIPPING WITH WINDOWS XP.
I might also sugges that the message being outputted should be re-worded as
it comes off "snobby".


2) the single most important thing any web site can do to ensure
accessibility is be sure it validates. Does yours?
<retorical question>
http://www.htmlhelp.com/cgi-bin/validate.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2F66.70.103.213%
2Fweb.asp%3Fpage%3Dhome&warnings=yes&input=yes

http://www.htmlhelp.com/cgi-bin/validate.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2F66.70.103.213%
2Fweb.asp%3Fpage%3Dservices%26sub%3D&warnings=yes&input=yes


I have filled out your survey, but to summarize, a total reliance on
automated evaluations is not sufficient. There is a gage on your car's
dashboard to monitor oil in your car, yet you still have the kid at the
garage "check the oil" from time to time, right? Why?

John Foliot
bytown internet
Ottawa, Ontario


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