Re: should we be trying to include all disabilities equally?

I've assembled a list of SCs that address, or attempted to address
Cognitive and Low Vision requirements in WCAG 2.0

http://www.davidmacd.com/blog/wcag-for-low-vision-cognitive-disabilites.html


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On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 12:52 PM, White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org> wrote:

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> *From:* Michael Pluke [mailto:Mike.Pluke@castle-consult.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 4, 2017 10:17 AM
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> I’m not sure that this should be the question. I think a survey would not
> prove anything. I’d be utterly astonished if many (or any) would suggest
> that WCAG 2.1 should exclude cognitive disabilities from its scope!
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> I think that everyone would like WCAG to address as many accessibility
> barriers as possible, irrespective of disability.
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> *[Jason] Making the Web “cross-disability accessible” has been the focus
> of WCAG from the very beginning in 1997, and even before then when the
> Trace Center compiled the guidelines that were submitted to the W3C at the
> start of the WCAG development process. I don’t think anyone is now
> proposing to reduce this scope. At least, I haven’t read or heard any such
> proposal.*
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> *Writing high-quality, efficacious and reliably testable proposals to
> address the needs of people with learning and cognitive disabilities beyond
> what we already have in WCAG is difficult. These difficulties are not new
> to the working group. They were encountered, as I recall, in the
> development of WCAG 1.0, and definitely received substantial attention in
> the 2.0 process. There are reasons why WCAG 2.0 provides as it does in
> Principle 3 and relevant parts of Principle 2, for example.*
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> *Let’s not confuse the challenges of creating a high-quality
> scpecification with an intention to reduce the scope of WCAG. The
> difficulties are real, should not be underestimated, but remain
> surmountable – even if some of them can’t be addressed until Silver.*
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