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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 8, 2011 7:03PM

Ryan

Can you post a sample of these errors, or tell us what the website is}
I agree that 20 is a bit high. For a test that Anec, the Euroean
consumer organiation carried out using WCAG 2.0 AA compliance, they
allowd up to 10 erros before they started taking points off, seemed
somewhat arbitrary, but I know the lady in charge of the study and she
is very smart nd thorrough.
I think it does depent, at lesat somewhat, on the types of errors you
are getting. I am fairly new to this business myself, and I try to
focus on themes in the types of errors I am finding, and emphasize
that to the web developers. If the problem is Javascript, I send tem
links on examples of accessible and inaccessible Javascript, along
with some comments about how it affects my experience as a screen
reader user. If it is failure to use alt text appropriately, I do the
same for that.
If someone has better approaches, I am fairly new and open to ideas
and learning more myself.
Hope these thoughts provide some initial, well, fod for tought. <(
=B

On 9/9/11, Ryan E. Benson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I was asked to look at part of a site. Most of the pages had over 20
> validation errors. While the developer hasn't been creating sites for
> too long, my lead told me to essentially ignore them. He says
> non-valid code is kind of the standard these days "in the real world."
> I know a good amount of people on the list either work for large
> organizations/companies, is this just how it is or should I be pushing
> for valid code. I would be fine with the errors if they were under
> five or so, but 20 is little high for my blood.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> --
> Ryan E. Benson
>