- From: Graham Oliver <graham_oliver@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 04:33:57 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Hi As the latest member of the group I would like to make comment on the current consensus. My purpose is to be clear on the areas of consensus that I don't understand or are uncomfortable with... There are 3..... C5, C6 and G1 C5 and C6 <extract from consensus posting> C5 - we WCAG should provide a way for people to see impact of items for particular disabilities but it should not be used for conformance. (see requirement 5) C6 - GL should provide hooks in WCAG to allow someone to provide a way for people to measure access against particular disabilities but it should not be used for conformance. [ Who should/would do the tool? GL or EO or ?] [Separate tool] </extract from consensus posting> If we provide an ability to discriminate for or against particular 'disability groups' then I would be very uncomfortable with this. The term 'should not be used for conformance' is used in both cases, presumably to guard against this happening. However, it does not appear to be much of a safeguard. If we give people the ability to discriminate across 'diability groups' then they may well / probably will use it. Another thing that is 'lost' or potentially 'glossed over' by this process is the complexity of disability. I believe that it is wrong to assume that people can simply be classed in terms of an impairment / disability, such as blindness, it doesn't fit with my knowledge of the world of disability. Perhaps if someone could explain the rationale for this functionality then it would make some sense to me. G1 As stated in my feedback on the latest draft of the guidelines [1] I believe that the statement "Our document should be written as clearly and simply as is appropriate for the content..." is tautological. I believe it is the *target audience* that determines the appropriate language. so would prefer "Our document should be written clearly and simply... or "Our document should be written as clearly and simply as is appropriate for the target audience..." Cheers Graham Oliver [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2001JulSep/0901.html ===== 'Making on-line information accessible' Mobile Phone : +64 25 919 724 - New Zealand Work Phone : +64 9 846 6995 - New Zealand AIM ID : grahamolivernz ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
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