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Re: Yes!!! It's the Accessibility World Cup!

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From: Stiofan Perkins
Date: Jun 11, 2006 12:10PM

I have tested the validity of the code for 186 US law schools, their law libraries, and the library pages of the 126 Association of Research Libraries.

The results:
law schools - 2 pages that passed the W3 validator;
law libraries - 6 pages passed
ARL libraries - approximattely 21 passed. Some people were doing browser sniffing and the page passed if view in IE but not in FF and vice-versa.

All-in-all, pretty dismal.

Regards,

Steven C. Perkins


Daniel Champion < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote: Dan Champion:

> Why not rename it the "Validity World Cup" and measure
> something that's measurable?

Tim Beadle:

> What, like this? http://www.timandkathy.co.uk/validaq/

Oh yes, very good, it would be splendid if someone produced something like
that on a regular basis for government sites, major corporates etc. I'd
wager valid (X)HTML is a reasonable proxy for accessibility on large
sites, and at least the ranking would be transparent.

Have you got automated processes behind ValiDAQ, or was it just a bit of
fun?

Dan




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