Re: Can Silver have normative technology specific requirements?

Wilco asks:

> Yes, technology specific measurable methods would be fantastic, but it is
very resource intensive to develop
and maintain them. ...

David responds:

We could have say, 5 technology specific methods and then a sixth
method could look like a technology agnostic WCAG 2 SC to cover any outlier
situations.

Most authors will ignore the last cryptic technology agnostic (General)
method and follow the easy to understand technology specific methods.

In other words, it needn't be more intensive as they are now. Provide the
methods we have  for a guideline and add a general method at the end that
they can meet in their own way.


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On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 8:56 PM David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

> Charles says:
> My hope for Silver is that it is as technology agnostic as possible –
> regardless of what section of a document or whether it is normative or
> informative. The guideline is to support people.
>
> David responds:
> I understand that Silver is moving toward non-testable/non-measurable
> Guidelines with things like "“no digital content should be restricted by
> a specific viewing context” and the measurability being at the method
> level. If you are proposing the methods also be technologically agnostic
> and that no technology specific requirements are in SIlver, then it
> sounds like we're back to separate non normative technology specific
> techniques hanging off those methods, which sounds a lot like WCAG 2.0. Unless
> you are saying "lets just omit techniques for HTML, PDF etc. and hand
> them technology neutral statements and let them figure it out for
> themselves in their technology."
>
>
> Cheers,
> David MacDonald
>
>
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