- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:07:31 +1000
- To: Web Content Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
gian@stanleymilford.com.au writes: > The success criteria: > Use a light grey or off-white instead of plain white as the background. > is likely to be a huge turn-off to developers. Could we include this, > but not make this success criteria part of the minimum set? Under the current conformance proposal, as I understand it, the question whether a success criterion belongs in the minimum set is determined by its importance in meeting the needs addressed in the checkpoint, not by its perceived acceptability (or lack thereof) to developers. Thus the real question is whether this is necessary in order to meet the contrast requirement. Of course, colour settings can often be overridden by user agent parameters, so perhaps the central requirement should be: either provide adequate contrast or allow users to control colour settings. This might entail inaction where the developer decides (or is entitled to assume) a baseline user agent capability that includes the capacity to adjust colour parameters. We need to find some way of expressing the success criteria for this which does not create an "until user agents" qualification in the guidelines.
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