Re: ( LC-2881)

 Dear Wilco Fiers ,

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has reviewed the
comments you sent [1] on the Last Call Working Draft [2] of the Techniques
for WCAG 2.0 published on 16 Jan 2014. Thank you for having taken the time
to review the document and to send us comments!

The Working Group's response to your comment is included below.

Please review it carefully and let us know by email at
public-comments-wcag20@w3.org if you agree with it or not before
02/25/2014. In case of disagreement, you are requested to provide a
specific solution for or a path to a consensus with the Working Group. If
such a consensus cannot be achieved, you will be given the opportunity to
raise a formal objection which will then be reviewed by the Director during
the transition of this document to the next stage in the W3C Recommendation
Track.

Thanks,

For the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group,
Michael Cooper
W3C Staff Contact

 1. http://www.w3.org/mid/E1WDCz9-0004xd-U4@stuart.w3.org
 2. http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2014/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20140107/


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Your comment on G183: Using a contrast ratio of 3:1 with surrounding text
and providing ad...:
> This technique is a great idea, but it’s not sufficient to meet
> success criterion 1.4.1. There is no allowance in 1.4.1 for information
> to be conveyed through color alone as long as those colors have a large
> contrast ratio. There is simply nothing in the criterion that mentions
> any such thing. So even though this makes sense as a technique, this
> exception is not permitted by the normative part of WCAG and so it can
> not be considered sufficient. Since this is still a pretty good idea,
> it’s best to make this technique an advisory technique.
> 
> Proposed Change:


Working Group Resolution (LC-2881):
Thank you for the comment.  You are correct in stating that 1.4.1 does not
allow for information to be conveyed by color alone, and that is what this
technique seeks to address.  Using this technique, in addition to color
being used to identify links from surrounding text the relative luminance
difference of 3:1 or greater (paired with additional confirmation when the
user tabs to or hovers over the links) allows the links to meet 1.4.1.  

To help make this more clear, we are adjusting the applicability sentence
from:
Colored text when color alone is used to convey information such as words
that are links in a paragraph
To: 
Text with links which lack decorative effects such as underlining that
typically serve to help users identify links from surrounding text.

We will leave this as a sufficient technique.


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Received on Wednesday, 19 February 2014 03:23:16 UTC