Re: Test contradicts other options to meet SC 1.4.4

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:39 AM, <noreply@w3.org> wrote:

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> Name: Detlev Fischer
> Email: fischer@dias.de
> Affiliation: DIAS GmbH
> Document: TD
> Item Number: C20
> Part of Item: Applicability
> Comment Type: general comment
> Summary of Issue: Test contradicts other options to meet SC 1.4.4
> Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change):
> Both the first sufficient technique quoted in "How to meet SC 1.4.4" as
> well as the fourth, G179, allow for designs where containers may be defined
> in px.
>
> Proposed Change:
> Unclear. The four options / sets of techniques offered to meet 1.4.4 seem
> somewhat contradictory.
>
> Possibly qualify:
>
> "When liquid layout techniques are chosen to satisfy SC 1.4.4:"
>
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Response from the Working Group
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In the instructions, just above the list of sufficient techniques, it says
that you must do one of the numbered items. You do not need to do all three
(or more). Therefore, techniques often will contradict each other. They are
different options or different ways of doing something. You may choose among
them. You do not have to do all of them. In fact you don't have to do any of
them actually. These are just suggestions, ways of meeting it that the
working group has declared to be sufficient. You may come up with a
different method altogether, and, if it meets the success criterion, it
meets the success criterion. Someday you may be called on to prove it by
someone. Therefore it is convenient to use ones where you have evidence that
the working group said that it would be sufficient. But it is not required.
No techniques are required.


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