Re: FN-FORUM: Opinions on W3C validator

date posted 24th September 2007 12:36


On 24 Sep 2007, at 13:09, Gary Short wrote:

>
> On 24 Sep 2007 11:51:21 -0000, Tony Crockford wrote
>> how does your use of the term usability differ from accessibility?
>> and in what way would a standards compliant site not be usable?
>
> Take one fully standards compliant accessible web site currently
> used by
> office based sales staff. Everything is working perfectly and has
> been for
> months. Now load it on a laptop and give it to field based sales
> staff.
> Since the application (without changes) has no facility for them to
> merge
> their local database changes with the main sales database, when
> they return
> to the office, the web app they are using is standards compliant and
> accessible but is of no use to them whatsoever and so fails usability.

well, that's like saying I tried to drive my car on the railway track
and it didn't work.

your using usability in terms of process and application in that case.

can you think of an example of a standards compliant website on the
web that doesn't work as a web site on the web?

;o)

at the end of the day, this argument, like most on this list
collapses under the weight of semantic scrutiny.

lol!