Hi, I think I have, at last, understood the purpose of this step – sorry to have been a bit thick – but please correct me if I am wrong.
# Public websites must, by default, rely on HTML (e.g videos need a text caption, images a text alternative etc.). This ensures that the site is publicly accessible.
# Private sites – such as company intranets – can rely on specific technologies (other than HTML) provided employees and other registered users have, or are are provided with, the relevant tools. So a training Intranet that requires Flash does not require text alternatives for the Flash animation – so long as the Flash is built in an accessible way and all users have Flash enabled machines.!
So step 2d is only needed if the site being evaluated is NOT a public web site. (But you might want to say something like “this is a public site that relies on HTML versionxxx”.) For an Intranet etc. we would use Step 2d to list the other technologies required (and to be tested for accessibility). We will need to specify the precise version of this additional software for the benefit of future evaluations etc.
If I am correct – could we re-word this section so that “thickos” like me can get it right first time
Regards
Richard Warren
Technical Manager
Website Auditing Limited (Userite)
http://www.website-accessibility.com
