- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:31:44 +1000 (EST)
- To: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Wendy A Chisholm wrote: > > Hello, > > The WCAG WG has an open issue about protocols [1]. In your opinion, do you > think WCAG 2.0 needs to say anything about transport protocols (e.g., http, > soap)? Where they are potentially relevant, yes. Remember that the technology-specifics reside outside the guidelines themselves, so that any mention in the guidelines would only be brief and would not refer to any specific protocols. Consider a scenario in which WCAG 2.0 becomes a Recommendation and, at some point thereafter, it becomes desirable to write techniques for using a protocol (e.g., a content negotiation protocol); if protocols aren't mentioned in the relevant context in WCAG then arguably there is no normative requirement on which to rest the techniques; therefore the techniques don't match the guidelines and one is faced with the undesirable prospect of having to amend a normative document, and moreover in ways that were entirely foreseeable. My conclusion: leave the possibility open in suitable contexts but don't spend much time on it. I would be particularly interested in content negotiation, which can operate at the protocol level.
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