Re: FN-FORUM: Opinions on W3C validator

date posted 24th September 2007 12:41


On 24 Sep 2007, at 13:11, Martin Wheatley wrote:
> On 24/09/2007 12:52, 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?
>> ;)
>
> My view would be, usability is how the user does something on the
> site e.g. login, if your site requires 10 steps to log-in, it's not
> very useable but may be standards compliant.
>
> Accessibility is making sure the site works in other browsers,
> screen readers and on different devices. Using things like the
> label tag on forms, making sure the document is well formed and
> compliant so if you remove the style sheet the web page still makes
> sense for instance.

agreed.

However I don't see how a designer that cares about web standards
enough to create a valid site would not also care about
accessibility and usability.

when I think about standards, the three go together completely.

can anyone point to a valid site that isn't usable.

;)