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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Sep 8, 2011 7:39PM

Birkir,

I cannot post a link to the site since it is internal. I checked the
site using the W3C validator, and a lot were ending the tags in >
versus />. The pages don't use javascript at all really, in fact one
of the blocks of Javascript are not being used anymore. As I said the
developer is kind of new and asked me if a <noscript> was needed. It
is a script to pass the URL to the contact page, but the contact page
doesn't pass the URL to a field on the page or e-mail it sends. So a
<noscript> is needed.

The pages are not complicated, usually a h1, then a few paragraphs,
and a nav bar.

--
Ryan E. Benson



On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
>>