- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 14:56:15 -0700
- To: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
WCAG 2.0 draft: "2.2 Use style languages, where available, to control
layout and presentation. Where practicable, provide (or link to) multiple
style sheets, each supporting a different output device."
I'd hate to see "until user agents" supplanted with "where available" and
"where practicable". As my surgeon/mentor (performed eye surgery past his
80th birthday!) says "Be Bold!"
A famous aphorism is "I'd rather beg forgiveness after than ask permission
before". It's OK to be dogmatic and allow reasonable exceptions that
account for practicality but we should be clear that we are
recommending/demanding the use of styles for presentation. If we aren't
firm about this, shame on us all.
The other guidelines/checkpoints do not contain this sort of "waffling" -
nor should they.
--
Love.
ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
Received on Sunday, 22 October 2000 17:56:57 UTC