Patrick H. Lauke wrote:

  [deprecated name=]
>>   I wouldn't call it "perfectly ok".
 
> Then we'll agree to disagree here. If there's a valid reason for using
> it, even if it's deprecated but still present, I'd call that perfectly
> ok (as long as the developer is aware of it).

Maybe they think that folks like me should be able to use the W3C main
page navigation...

> Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force
> http://webstandards.org/ 

...unlike those folks.

Frank