WCAG 2.0 conformance claim with content negotiation (was: Summary of ERT WG Meeting on Tuesday 26 July, 2005)

Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote:

> * WCAG 2.0 conformance claims seem to disregard content negotiation
> * proposal: conformance claim on URI implies all its delivery units
> * ...otherwise claims should be made only on specific delivery units
> * ACTION: Johannes will draft proposal and send to ERT for feedback

IMO content negotiation deals with a negotiating process between client 
and server to decide which of a limited number of versions the server 
should send to the client. The content provider is responsible for all 
of the provided versions and so should also be responsible for their 
accessibility. So a conformance claim with a URI for a negotiated 
resource must cover all possible versions of the content.

This does not cover personalized content, where the number of versions 
are unlimited (at least sort of). IMHO this is a different topic.
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Received on Monday, 1 August 2005 08:26:32 UTC