Re: WCAG vialations or accessibility enhancements

Very well said! Thank you...

Regards,

Srinivasu Chakravarthula - Twitter: http://twitter.com/CSrinivasu/
Website: http://www.srinivasu.org | http://serveominclusion.com

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Lead Accessibility Consultant, Informatica


On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 1:42 PM, <chagnon@pubcom.com> wrote:

> I’m just a lurker on this list, but I’m a member on other accessibility
> standards committees.
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> This issue of non-sequential (or out-of-order) headings has become a
> heated debate everywhere and I believe it’s a terrible trend. It certainly
> violates, in principal, the concept of making digital media accessible to
> people.
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> Writing, editing, publishing — regardless of the media that delivers it —
> has always stressed a logical hierarchy of headings and that theory has
> worked well over the past 100 years of communication. It’s called good
> writing.
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> I don’t understand what has brought about this change in thought on all
> the standards committees, that it’s OK to jump from H2 to H5.
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> It is *not* ok. It harms many people who use assistive technologies.
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> What’s happened to our commitment to those of us who use assistive
> technologies, who depend upon them? Does the community’s needs no longer
> have any merit? During the past couple of years, those of us on standards
> committees seem to have put the cart before the horse.
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> Our standards are developed for people who use technology — not for the
> computers or technologies that deliver the content. Otherwise, we are just
> wasting our time developing any accessibility standards at all.
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> *Peoples’ need first*. Then it’s the software engineers’ job to make
> their technology meet those needs.
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