Re: Desktop view should not be conforming alternative to mobile view

Going back to the original point that David made about explicitly saying 
that a mobile version CAN'T treat the desktop version as an alternate 
(which I don't believe is the right way to go about it, provided that 
the mobile version does have at least a link to the desktop version, as 
per point 4 of "alternate"), it seems then that (also in light of the 
comments about different responsive views) there needs to be a generic 
additional note/reminder "somewhere" in WCAG 2 along the lines of

"If a site provides different views/layouts depending on factors outside 
of the user's control, such as screen size, device type, user agent, 
etc, each of these views/layouts needs to be accessible, or offer a 
mechanism to switch to an accessible alternative version (as per 
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#conforming-alternate-versiondef)"

Thoughts?

P
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Received on Tuesday, 28 June 2016 14:44:47 UTC