Re: Conformance Claims and Logo

It is simple....
page that don't reach accessibility level with *all* the contents cannot
expose the conformance logo.

If for copyright is not possibile to make alternative version is important
that an user must be informed about inacessibility *BEFORE* to access to the
document/tecnology.

This will *force* the plugin/tecnology/content providers to adapt their code
to accessibility or made an alternative accessibility version: this will
made sensibilization to the productors, expecially in the country where
there are law that request the respect of the WCAG.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregg Vanderheiden" <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
To: "'Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG'" <rscano@iwa-italy.org>; "'WCAG List'"
<w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 12:10 AM
Subject: RE: Conformance Claims and Logo


Hi all

I knew that one would start a conversation.  Because I see big problems both
ways and no way to solve them.

If something is copyrighted and inaccessible, it is a felony (Federal crime)
to create an accessible version in many cases.   Plagiarism and the
Millennium Copyright Act are two examples.  And there are more.

Also,  if you click on a document it downloads to your computer and you
expect it to be accessible.  (even HTML).

But if you click on a program and download it you think of it as a product,
not content.

So what if you click on a book?
A film?
A DVD?
A PDF?
A Movie stream?
A Video stream?
A Stock Quote stream in a proprietary (non copyable and therefore non-screen
reader compatible form)?

When is it content and when is it product?
When is it even legal to repackage the content accessibly (that therefore
pirate-able)?

However, we don't want to give blanket approval that content on a web site
can just be inaccessible if it came from somewhere else......

Received on Friday, 31 January 2003 03:39:16 UTC