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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Aug 13, 2003 3:12PM


On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

> However, would like to have a confirmation of validation such as
> "Congratulations! This page meets the requirements for WCAG 1.0 Level A" or
> something like that.

Do you "validate" your pages in order to be proud of something, or to make
them more accessible to all? In the latter case, why would you pollute the
page with such a statement?

> I know there have been discussions regarding the value
> of the WCAG "badges" but if the page meets the requirements setout by the
> specific standard, at least the ones that may be checked automatically, then
> a statement to that effect would be useful.

Useful to whom? And it would be false.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


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