- From: john_slatin <john_slatin@forum.utexas.edu>
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 08:36:59 -0500
- To: "'Charles McCathieNevile'" <charles@w3.org>, "'Gregg Vanderheiden'" <GV@trace.wisc.edu>
- Cc: "'w3c-wai-gl@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Interesting point about visual arts, literature, music, etc. A year ago we tried a little experiment in accessible electronic poetry for a special issue of an ejournal of which I'm general editor (meaning that the graduate students do the real work). Included in the call for submissions was a call for new electronic works of poetry coupled with a reminder of our editorial policy requiring WCAG conformance (level not specified). What I was hoping or were new works composed from the outset with WCAG 1.0 in mind. Of course that wasn't what came in: what came in were some elbaroately conceived works depending heavily on Javascript and Flash, and what followed were some interesting struggles over retrofitting those works. Among other things there were some interesting debates about the legitimacy of requiring poets and other artists to conform to guidelines and standards. Visit http://currents.cwrl.utexas.edu and follow the link to the Fall 2001 issue; my discussion of the issues engaged by the poets is in the article called "Equivalent Alternatives?" (I'd give you the full URL but the server is down for the moment, for maintenance, so I can't get to it). John John Slatin, Ph.D. Director, Institute for Technology & Learning University of Texas at Austin FAC 248C, Mail code G9600 Austin, TX 78712 ph 512-495-4288, f 512-495-4524 email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu web http://www.ital.utexas.edu -----Original Message----- From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:charles@w3.org] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 8:07 am To: Gregg Vanderheiden Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: Re: FW: Conformance Level Determination Well, I think there are sites that should not be able to claim conformance because they are not accessible. Certain types of artworks )including graphic arts, music, and some kinds of literature) are not going to be accessible. We should be clear that sites in general should attempt all checkpoints at all levels, since many of them will provide benefits to some group even without providing general accessibility. An implication of this is we need to identify any checkpoints that depend on others to be useful - Gian (I think) did this at the Melbourne Face to face meeting. Cheers Charles -- 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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