- From: Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 19:17:56 -0700
- To: "Steve Paesani" <spaesani@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-comments-WCAG20@w3.org
Dear Steve Paesani, Thank you for your comments on the 17 May 2007 Public Working Draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/). The WCAG Working Group has reviewed all comments received on the May draft, and will be publishing an updated Public Working Draft shortly. Before we do that, we would like to know whether we have understood your comments correctly, and also whether you are satisfied with our resolutions. Please review our resolutions for the following comments, and reply to us by 19 November 2007 at public-comments-wcag20@w3.org to say whether you are satisfied. Note that this list is publicly archived. Note also that we are not asking for new issues, nor for an updated review of the entire document at this time. Please see below for the text of comments that you submitted and our resolutions to your comments. Each comment includes a link to the archived copy of your original comment on http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/, and may also include links to the relevant changes in the WCAG 2.0 Editor's Draft of May-October 2007 at http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-20071102/ Thank you for your time reviewing and sending comments. Though we cannot always do exactly what each commenter requests, all of the comments are valuable to the development of WCAG 2.0. Regards, Loretta Guarino Reid, WCAG WG Co-Chair Gregg Vanderheiden, WCAG WG Co-Chair Michael Cooper, WCAG WG Staff Contact On behalf of the WCAG Working Group ---------------------------------------------------------- Comment 1: layout tables, user agent identification conformance? Source: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0072.html (Issue ID: 1991) ---------------------------- Original Comment: ---------------------------- Document: W2 Item Number: Conformance Requirements Part of Item: Comment Type: general comment Summary of Issue: user agent detection Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change): Document compliance without any user agent identification WAI compliance ? The sorry state of the web's accessibility MAY have something to do with this. Though specialized servers that convert documents is nice, a simple WAI conforming http request attribute suffices. I am pretty sure many people will move rather readily towards developing WAI AAA documents once such a specification is in place and is seen as moving towards wide spread acceptance. As for removing tables, this is seen as a content/presentation seperation issue and NOT an assisstive technology issue. if such is not the case then either a clear explanation as to how exactly a table is non assisstive could be placed in the Guidelines. if such is the case then perhaps not trying to associate assissitveness to 'no tables' might help in furthening the credibility of the Guidleines. Something that may affect them being respected hence accepted hence moved upon. Thank you. Proposed Change: More movement towards WAI user agent identification conformance. Removal of the 'replace tables now' philosophy. Such changes might prove helpful to all concerned and more readily furthen the good intentions of the WAI group. --------------------------------------------- Response from Working Group: --------------------------------------------- The guidelines encourage the correct use of tables for data. The guidelines do not forbid the use of tables for layout, but the technique is not encouraged. CSS layout is better supported by AT. The techniques documents are non-normative, and can be updated, amended and changed as circumstances and technology changes. Therefore, content negotiation techniques can be added at any time they are supported and will work.
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