- From: Wayne Dick <wed@csulb.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:28:34 -0700
- To: EOWG <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
Hi Everyone, I'm sorry if I'm driving you crazy regarding accessibility support. After working on the "Accessibility Support" section of "Conformance", I realized that accessibility support is a basic retirement of web content not Web technology. Web technology is invoked by web content, and it can create a barrier to access based on lack of robustness (interoperability). Accessibility support is the "handle" for the new guideline (say 4.2) and the success criteria are the really nasty rules for placing a Web technology in a list of supported technologies. Actually the list should be called the "List of Web technologies that can be referenced by Level A web content". I know this suggestion is dense and a little radical, but I just spent a week thinking about accessibility support. Once I rephrased it, the structure began to look much more like a guideline than a conformance concept. Put simply: Accessibility support is the robustness requirement for the Web technologies that are referenced by web content. The "making a list" rules are success criteria. Wayne Wayne Wayne Dick PhD Chair Computer Engineering and Computer Science, CSU, Long Beach Coordinator of Academic Technology Accessibility, CSU System
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