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- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:58:39 -0500
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I am trying to follow this thread in light of what was discussed last week. Perhaps I misunderstood, but I thought we had agreed that the question about WCAG compliance might be the wrong question because we are so infrequently able to answer with a simple "yes." I thought we had concurred that compliance might be the wrong frame. Shadi suggested that a better question might be "How does it relate to WCAG?" and that because there is not a one-to-one mapping for most of these points, an emphasis may more effectively be placed on best practice. Alan, I am happy to incorporate a sample of a change in emphasis into the existing text if that would be useful for you to take to the others on the mobile list. Let me know if that would help. Best, Sharron From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:30:48 -0800 At the last teleconference it was expressed that the audience for the current effort to align Mobile Best Practices and WCAG compliance was interested in how to comply with standards, but... What Charles says here is true. Although there are many who seek a cookbook recipe to achieve "compliance" with some accepted/required standard, we must make every effort to assure that the "Web Experience" is accessible/usable for all of us. What we generate will never rise to the level of a "Recommendation" but it should form the basis for enhancing that which we seek to enhance. Love. >From : Charles McCathieNevile[mailto:chaals@opera.com] I agree. WCAG 2.0 compliance, while useful, is not the only or definitive measure of accessibility, any more than compliance to mobile BP is the definitive measure of mobile friendliness. They are just references to a framework document we have available that makes it easier to disucss the goals in concrete terms. We should recognise that, and point out how you can improve user experiences in both areas at the same time. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web
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