Comment on "About Baselines" in "Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents"

Don't want to disrupt the telecon, but want to log this
thought. From the "Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents" we have the
sentence:

  When a Web site claims to conform to WCAG 2.0, all information
  and functionality of the Web content conform to WCAG 2.0 even
  when a user agent supports only the technologies in the
  baseline.

Reading it one more time, I'm suddenly uneasy/confused by it.  To
me, a critical aspect of baselines is that conformance *requires*
the user side (user agent) to support all baseline technologies.
So it's not so much conformance "even when the user agent
supports only the baseline"; rather, it's "only conformance when
[if?] the user agent supports the [complete?] baseline".  (I know
the grammar is wrong there, I'm just trying the get my idea
across...)

(NB: I am *not* making any statement here about whether or not I
agree with the way the baseline concept have been incorporated
into WCAG 2.0. As we discussed, that's a whole other question...)

Best - Barry.

Received on Friday, 28 April 2006 14:21:34 UTC