- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 10:52:11 -0700
- To: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Cc: Robert Neff <robneff@home.com>, IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, w3c-wai-eo@w3.org, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 07:03 AM 7/17/1999 , David Poehlman wrote: >we must look at the total picture here. the guidelines and >checkpoints serve as guides. The problem as I see it is that they are not being adopted as "guides" but rather as "requirements"; the helpful checkpoints that can be figured out by anyone with just a smidgen of common sense can be easily twisted into firm, hard checkpoints that MUST be satisfied in order to achieve a "Double-AA compliance" rating. This is a big problem -- the Single-A, Double-AA, Triple-AAA system does not have a caveat saying "you can still achieve Double-AA rating if you do almost everything and use common sense in what you do and don't choose to do." -- Kynn Bartlett mailto:kynn@hwg.org President, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ AWARE Center Director http://aware.hwg.org/
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