Re: Applicability of General WCAG 2.0 techniques.

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:56 AM, <noreply@w3.org> wrote:

>
> Name: Andrew Arch
> Email: andrew.arch@finance.gov.au
> Affiliation: Australian Government Information Management Office
> Document: TD
> Item Number: (none selected)
> Part of Item: Description
> Comment Type: question
> Summary of Issue: Applicability of General WCAG 2.0 techniques.
> Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change):
> PDF Technology Notes -
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2011/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20110621/pdf.html#pdf_notes
>
> Applicability of techniques that aren’t specific to PDF may be missed by
> authors just
> interested in PDF techniques and only reading the page “PDF Techniques for
> WCAG
> 2.0”.
>
> Proposed Change:
> Include a statement in the Technology Notes that the general techniques
> from WCAG
> 2.0 must also be followed in preparing PDF files, for example, techniques
> for sufficient
> contrast and providing abbreviations.
>
> Such a statement about general techniques could possibly be placed in the
> paragraph
> preceding the H1 before the Table of Contents where there is a link to
> ‘other
> technologies’, though repeating it within the Technology Notes with
> examples is also
> recommended.
>
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Response from the Working Group
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Thank you for this suggestion. We have added this explanation to a variety
of places in our documents:

1. In the Abstract for the Techniques document, we added the sentence:
"Technology-specific techniques do not supplant the general techniques:
content developers should consider both general techniques and
technology-specific techniques as they work toward conformance."

2. In the Introduction to Techniques, we added the following paragraph:

Techniques are specific authoring practices that may be used in
support of the WCAG 2.0 success criteria. This document provides
"General Techniques" that describe basic practices that are applicable
to any technology, and technology-specific techniques that provide
information applicable to specific technologies. Technology-specific
techniques do not supplant the general techniques: content developers
should consider both general techniques and technology-specific
techniques as they work toward conformance.

3. In the Quick Reference, we added the paragraph:

Technology-specific techniques do not supplant the general techniques:
content developers should consider both general techniques and
technology-specific techniques as they work toward conformance.

4. In the Introduction to PDF Techniques for WCAG 2.0, we added:

Technology-specific techniques do not supplant the general techniques:
content developers should consider both general techniques and
technology-specific techniques as they work toward conformance.


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