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

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From: Stephane Deschamps
Date: Jun 12, 2006 3:40AM

<quote who="Daniel Champion">

> I agree, that's why I specifically said it would be a reasonable *proxy*
> for accessibility. Developers of large sites who understand the value and
> benefits of valid HTML are also likely to understand and implement
> accessibility. Of course there will always be exceptions, and of course
> valid code alone does not make a site accessible.
>
> The point I trying to make is that automated testing of accessibility is
> extremely limited without manual checking, so publishing league tables is
> effectively meaningless - the number of checkpoints that cannot be
> accurately and confidently tested is much larger than the number that can
> be, so the margin for error renders the exercise pointless. A validity
> league table would be no better at measuring accessibility, but it would
> be less ambiguous and misleading.

<metooism>
I definitely agree with you and am looking forward to Urbilog's mixed
testing.
</metooism>

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Stephane Deschamps
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