- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 08:49:18 +1100
- To: goliver@accease.com
- Cc: wendy@w3.org, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
goliver@accease.com writes: > Wendy > Issue number 55 > > http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wcag20-issues.html#55 > > talks about the accessibilty / usability conundrum. > > I would like to volunteer to do the following > > 1. Suggest several ways of creating the distinction > between usability and accessibility based on prior list > discussion and my own 2 NZ cents worth (remember thats > not much in your money :-) > > 2. Post this to the list and try and reach consensus on > what we mean by accessibility and what we mean by > usability, in terms of WCAG 2.0. This has been discussed before at meetings. The group agreed to drop the usability/accessibility distinction and instead to rely on other terms and concepts in making decisions relevant to the guidelines. Thus I would suggest making your argument without relying on this supposed distinction, unless you ahve a good, compelling reason to reopen the issue.
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