Re: Conforming alternative only when compliance cannot be accomplished? (was Re: Conforming alternative for mobile should not be Desktop)

Hi Patrick

I've rolled back to the Note 8 that we were close on, and added your note
9.

- Note 8: Views or layouts other than those delivered based on screen size,
device type, user agent, etc can be considered "alternatives" ONLY IF they
satisfy the fundamental requirement laid out in items 1, 2, 3, 4 of this
definition (i.e., a view with a more complicated menu mechanism, more or
less content, or a simplified interface, would have different functionality
from the view that was delivered to the user agent and therefore not
qualify under item 2 of this definition).

- Note 9: Authors SHOULD only rely on having a "conforming alternate
version" when compliance cannot be accomplished in any other way.

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On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
wrote:

> At a stretch, if there really is such a concern that developers will use
> "alternate accessible version" as an excuse to server sub-par experiences
> instead of making any effort to make their "mobile" version work (though as
> I mentioned repeatedly, I think the danger of the "desktop" version being
> sub-par would be highly mitigated by making sure WCAG 2.1 has appropriate
> SCs to fight any "sub-par-ishness", here's a thought (since 508 was
> mentioned at one point in this discussion): how about adding a
> non-normative Note 9 to "conforming alternate version" which borrows some
> of the wording from 1194.22 (k) and says
>
> Note 9: authors SHOULD [ed: in the actual RFC 2119 sense] only rely on
> having a "conforming alternate version" when compliance cannot be
> accomplished in any other way
>
> P
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