Re: First Stab at Set of Principles for 'Minimum Conformance'

• From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
• Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:51:12 -0000
• To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <01d801c15c79$cd96e0e0$ca969dc3@emedia.co.uk>

"Anne Pemberton":
> No minimum conformance will be acceptable without inclusion of the
needs of
> the cognitively and reading disabled population. It makes no difference
> whether a blind person is faced with a page of graphics without alt
text or
> a reading disabled person is faced with a page of text without
> illustrations, they are equally inaccessible to the respective users.
> Either situation presents as "no access" to the user.

> >6. The Guideline must be easy to implement
> >
> >7. The Guideline must be easily verifiable (this is
> >part of the Draft Requirements)

Such requirements would generally fail these rquirements, so much
material is certainly not easy to illustrate, and how do you propose to
test for it?

Jim

Received on Wednesday, 24 October 2001 06:52:04 UTC