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Re: Can HTML tagged content conform to WCAG 2.0 without <body>, etc?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 21, 2015 1:09PM

On 21/04/2015 19:43, Steve Faulkner wrote:
> the wording of the criteria makes reference to
> 'specifications'. There is no way to determine if a tag is complete or is
> nested correctly or requires an end tag without reference to a
> specification. In HTML the way the specification used is identified is via
> the doctype.

Also not forgetting the MIME type that a resource is sent as...so, even
in absence of a <!DOCTYPE>, having something sent as text/html is
usually enough to make the browser interpret it as HTML. Plus, most
(all?) browsers will, as a last resort, do some basic pattern matching
("does it end in .htm or .html?").

Getting back to the original question, I'd say that a document doesn't
necessarily have to validate, but follow general "well-formedness" (if
you pardon me borrowing from XML here), for the most part.

P
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