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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Sep 10, 2002 9:52AM

Which poses the question: do developers code to standards and leave the
implementation to the "interpreters (user agents)" or do we code to software
bugs such as the one documented below? As Paul notes, 2 major screen
reading technologies get it right, one gets it wrong.

Developing complex tables is work enough to ensure accessibility, do we need
to also work around software bugs? Everybody has their role to play,
including Freedom Scientific. While not everybody agreed with the WaSP
stance (http://www.webstandards.org/) when they first emerged, two years
later we have (generally) compliant browsers. So who was right?

I do not pose this question to antagonize, but by the same token I
(personally) feel that it needs to be discussed.

(Please - no flames!)

JF

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