- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:25:03 -0400
- To: "WCAG 2 comments" <public-comments-wcag20@w3.org>
Technical/substantive issue The section currently provides no guidance to actually choosing a baseline that can in fact be used accessibly. I propose that the availability of a user agent which meets level-A conformance to User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 for the relevant technology and language be a minimum criterion for the selection of a baseline. In this way, selection of a baseline that is not actually accessible automatically makes it impossible to claim conformance to the accessibility guidelines. This avoids the situation where it is possible to construct content that can meet the requirements, but that is not actually accessible due to the absence of any means for using the baseline set. Otherwise there is a risk that the value of conformance will be significantly reduced, since it makes no reliable statement about whether the content is in fact accessible to real people. This seems a reasonable requirement given that UAAG is a W3C recommendation, and does not seem onerous for common web technologies. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk chaals@opera.com Try Opera 9 ASAP! http://opera.com
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