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Re: WCAG Techniques are informative [was: Programmatic association of generic link text]

From: Olaf Drümmer <olaf@druemmer.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 15:37:05 +0200
Cc: Olaf Drümmer <olaf@druemmer.com>
Message-Id: <8B56661D-892E-473B-AFC7-A8935E02692E@druemmer.com>
To: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>, W3C WAI ig <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> 
I consider the following sentence inappropriate:

On 4 Sep 2012, at 15:21, Shawn Henry wrote:

> Web content could even fail a particular technique test,


especially in an  email that tries to state that techniques are no basis for determining conformance...

Techniques are just that - techniques. One could also call them useful tools, methods, cool ideas, helpful tricks,  ... but it is not suitable to call them tests.


Olaf Drümmer
Received on Tuesday, 4 September 2012 13:37:40 GMT

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