My written comments to the Access Board

A meeting is too short in time to discuss why I think the AB cannot adopt
the WCAG low vision success criteria.  It has to do with the charge of the
Access Board.  The AB was created by Section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act
the same act that includes 508.  This act in not really about information
communication technology in general, it concerns access to government
documents so that citizens in protected classes are not given, "equal
access to laws." (Section1, 14th Amendment, US Constitution). While
harmonization with international standards is good, the access board is
responsible to the Rehabilitation Act that created the AB. I do not believe
WCAG as stated gives equal access to the law for people with visual acuity
of 20/70 or worse.  If the access board agrees then they cannot adopt the
WCAG rules for low vision as they stand. Note that a person with 20/70
vision needs 350% enlargement to perceive the smallest letters a person
with normal vision can see.

Here is my written testimony minus my bibliography.

http://nosetothepage.org/508/Testimony.html

Wayne