> the fact is that after ten years or more there's still not a single successful web authoring application that's publishes accessible validated code
I'm not sure that this is fault of the application - all your major desktop apps, as well as most (mainly open source) CMSes will happily produce very nice code for you. However users tend to modify the templates (as any decent CMS/CPS/whatever uses), and their focus is on the visual appearance rather than usable it is in a screenreader. > Similarly much of web2.0 is server based which significantly reduces the possibilities for sharing or engaging the public in authoring. I disagree. "Web 2.0", and whatever people's interpretations of this flimsy collection of technologies and concepts is, in my view invariably shows a shift to client-side code. At least it is at the moment. This takes the form of javascript for the use of XMLHTTPRequest or perhaps the wide variety of client software for RSS reading. Any software on the server-side [I'm gritting my teeth saying this next 5 words] "in a web 2.0 world" is just allowing the data to be opened up and standardised through an API. All in my humble opinion, of course, and not the views of the BBC or anything like that :-) J ________________________________________________ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: (0208 57) 59487 Mobile: 07976500729 "Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here" - Ray Bradbury - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
