- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:40:59 +0100
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Aurelien Levy <aurelien.levy@free.fr>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>
aloha, sam!
just a note to you and the other chairs to ask why you don't give the
credence to WCAG that you would to other Technical Recommendations?
you wrote:
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> The existence of these guidelines (standards, laws, etc). that
> you and others cited is a valid argument. To my knowledge, no
> one is contesting that these guidelines exist. Some have argued
> that these have had little impact. None of the proposals or
> objections clearly established that these guidelines had an impact.
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WCAG 2.0 is a W3C recommendation, not a nebulous guideline -- are the
chairs saying that Technical Recommendations that come from the WAI
domain don't carry the same weight as any other w3c-produced Technical
Recommendation?
gregory.
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