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Subject:Re: Playing nicely with Bobby From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:21:58 -0400
>
> I'd just like to get a feel for the kind of sites that can pass this
> rigorous test. I think it's a great standard to aim for.
>
I just put my home page through Bobby and saw that it does not read the HTML
in context. For example, an <IMG> tag that does not display a picture was
cited as lacking ALT text.
I received a report from someone using a text browser recently that my page
was easily comprehensible in a text reader, so I'm not worried about it.
Unless you know the HTML code in question well enough to determine if in
fact Bobby is correct, I'd reserve judgment on whether a page is compliant
or not.
Bobby also had some concern about other images on my page (the navigation
buttons) and asked me to check that any use of the concept of "color" was
conveyed in another way in addition to the color itself. There was nothing
about color in the lines of my code that Bobby questioned, but there *were*
<IMG> tags that were hyperlinks. Now, perhaps it is reading the style sheet
underneath the HTML. That might explain this error. My point, however, is
that Bobby is not infallible.
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