Martin, >Maybe because the WCAG are more extensive? That is not the point. Yes certainly WCAG are adopted by orgs. And governments. I never argued against that nor said S508 are better than WCAG or that WCAG should be ignored. Indeed paragraphs a through k are directly from WCAG 1.0. But in addition certain rules from S508 too which are not reflected in WCAG 1.0 have their merits. Sailesh Panchang Hello Sailesh, > So I do not see why they [S508] cannot become standard elsewhere if > one chooses to implement them. Maybe because the WCAG are more extensive? > So if an organization or country adopts certain portions of the S508 > rules and packages them as something that they recommend, they will > remain guidelines. If enforced more strictly like a set of > regulations or law, they become standards. Did you mean with "standards" conditions de facto or de jure? Martin Stehle -- Martin Stehle, Web Development mailto:pewtah@snafu.de http://home.snafu.de/pewtah/Received on Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:06:13 GMT
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