- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:27:34 -0700
- To: <seeman@netvision.net.il>, "'Dan Aunspach'" <aunspach@va.mediaone.net>, "WAI \(E-mail\)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 08:36 AM 10/24/00 +0200, Lisa Seeman wrote:
>what should the guideline be
The guidelines should be guidelines. They are not edicts/laws/regulations
or even proclamations/standards. They are the carefully-considered
recommendations of people who have (hopefully with some knowledge/skill)
prepared some documents that should be helpful in making the Web more
usable - particularly by PWDs.
Although we can't but be aware of the fact that these
recommendations/guidelines are referred to in laws and various
corporate/public policies, that's not part of our charter. We say use
styling and if that causes insurmountable problems, then the problems won't
be surmounted - full stop. Do we seek to make our goals attainable? You
betcha. Is the fact that this is currently near-impossible a big deterrent.
Not on your life. It's our job to be part futurists and guess what will
happen to browsers/plug-ins/ATs/languages and with those guesses to issue
*guidelines*.
Dictionary: "a line by which one is guided: as a : a cord or rope to aid a
passer over a difficult point or to permit retracing a course b : an
indication or outline of policy or conduct"
Thesaurus has no entry for guideline. (Old joke: "what's another word for
'thesaurus'"?)
--
Love.
ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
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