- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:47:53 -0500 (EST)
- To: Gregg Vanderheiden <GV@TRACE.WISC.EDU>
- cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, "'Judy Brewer'" <jbrewer@w3.org>
I don't think this is a good idea. Policy makers can easily adopt or cite WCAG, and if they want to understand it then it should be clear to a general audience. However it appears to me that this priveliges policy makers as a target audience above "general readers", and could be interpreted as saying that what is in WCAG has to make acceptable policy. The latter interpretation is completely unacceptable, since different countries are going to have different ideas of what that means, and as a citizen of a country which uses a very different written standard to the US I am concerned that this document will simply be irrelevant. The idea that policy makers should be priveliged above general readers, seems like a bad approach to me. I disagree with the proposal, and I very strongly object to any requirement that WCAG can be adopted as policy unless it is made extremely clear that this does not imply that policy considerations are grounds for determining the technical requirements of WCAG. Charles McCN On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: At teleconf call today we reached consensus on collapsing R1,2, and 3 into a new R1 as listed below. It is posted to the List for comment before adoption next week. R1: WCAG 2.0 deliverables should be more understandable and usable by a wider audience than was anticipated for WCAG 1.0, including policy makers. While the WCAG WG does not set policy, harmonization of accessibility requirements helps drive demand for supporting implementations in Web applications; therefore it should be easy for policy makers and individuals responsible for implementing policy to understand, cite and/or adopt WCAG 2.0 and related deliverables. Gregg For WCAG -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Human Factors Depts of Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. Director - Trace R & D Center University of Wisconsin-Madison Gv@trace.wisc.edu < <mailto:Gv@trace.wisc.edu> mailto:Gv@trace.wisc.edu>, < <http://trace.wisc.edu/> http://trace.wisc.edu/> FAX 608/262-8848 For a list of our listserves send "lists" to listproc@trace.wisc.edu < <mailto:listproc@trace.wisc.edu> mailto:listproc@trace.wisc.edu> -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +33 4 92 38 78 22 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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