- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:07:22 -0800
- To: <gdeering@acslink.net.au>, "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: "WAI GL" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 6:03 PM +1100 1/21/02, Geoff Deering wrote: >I think there is a whole new design approach once you move out of the WCAG1 >Priority 1 Guidelines into the Priority 2. In Priority 1 you can use many >different techniques; images for text, tables for layout, etc, but the >Priority 2 Checkpoints mean a whole new design strategy (in my opinion); I consider this a flaw in WCAG 1 -- I believe it went overboard in proscribing "this is the one and only way to do things" and lost track of what we're actually trying to accomplish. Whenever you have that kind of regimented "only one way" kind of thinking you shut out other solutions -- such as the bizarre and highly inappropriate designation of audience-adapted UIs as as "last resort". --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Web Accessibility Expert-for-hire http://kynn.com/resume January Web Accessibility eCourse http://kynn.com/+d201 Forthcoming: Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours
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