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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Mar 10, 2014 6:26PM

Duff wrote:
" From the perspective of the creators of the web nothing "existed" at all.
They had to write software, and they wanted it to do something useful as
soon as possible. Supporting all that stuff that printers and publishers
were doing would have meant turning HTML into SGML. and HTML was invented
more-or-less to get away from SGML! "

Yeh yeh yeh, those poor innocent college boys.

I know. SGML was and still is a bear. It's overkill. Like saying "here's the
dot on the lower case letter "i", that's in the word "idiotic", in the
sentence "this is idiotic nonsense", in the third paragraph of the second
section of the first article in the book ...
Some XML schemas and DTDs are like that, too.

I'd run away from it too, if I could! <grin>

But we could develop a happy medium between the ridiculously skimpy tag set
we now have for accessibility, and the anal-retentive nonsense of SGML and
some XML.

WebAIM is one group that could address this and get the problem fixed for
everyone. That would be a wonderful accomplishment for this group, wouldn't
it?

-Bevi Chagnon
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Duff Johnson
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 6:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Multiple H1 tags in an HTML5 web page

Well said, Bevi!

> It was a shame that the originators of HTML and the WWW didn't look
> use the hundreds of years of publishing as their model for Internet
information.

Ha! You mean, all that prehistoric print-era thinking! What did they know.
:-)

> They went about an created a new wheel. To me, they invented a
> dysfunctional half-assed wheel rather than taking the existing,
> functional wheel and making it better.

From the perspective of the creators of the web nothing "existed" at all.
They had to write software, and they wanted it to do something useful as
soon as possible. Supporting all that stuff that printers and publishers
were doing would have meant turning HTML into SGML. and HTML was invented
more-or-less to get away from SGML!

> We have a very long way to go before we can begin to provide equal
> access to information for disabled users. This discussion about tags
> is just the tip of the iceberg!

That is for sure. :-(

Duff.
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