- From: Charles F. Munat <chas@munat.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:33:59 -0700
- To: "WCAG WG" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Anne Pemberton wrote: > but suppose we built the site for > accessibility/usability .... maybe using Williams recent thoughts ... > something that changes dynamically to respond to newly-known > needs .... and > changes again as various user agents and authoring tools make > such concerns > past tense .... > > And built the "carved in stone" guidelines from the dynamic > response to needs. At the recent F2F there did not seem to be any support for this at all. The consensus seemed to be that the guidelines had to be something that the regulation writers could use as a basis for their regulations, that conformance (and thus "normativeness") were vital, and that these requirements ruled out any sort of unstable checkpoints (how can you expect conformance to a document that keeps changing?). In my mind, the only way that a dynamic hypertext resource for accessibility/usability information would work is to discard the whole idea of checkpoints and normative/non-normative criteria. Everything would be informational and "conformance" would be up to the user to measure. I suggested such a path at the F2F and there were no takers. Chas. Munat
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