- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <GV@TRACE.WISC.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:35:01 -0600
- To: "'Charles McCathieNevile'" <charles@w3.org>, "'Wendy A Chisholm'" <wendy@w3.org>
- Cc: "'GLWAI Guidelines WG \(GL - WAI Guidelines WG\)'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hi Charles, S1 was supposed to state clearly that having a link to the accessible version from the inaccessible version is allowed. (That content negotiation is not required). However, it is clear that the current wording was not clear. How about S1 - Serving content in different forms in order to meet different user needs or preferences is an acceptable way to comply with the guidelines, -- as long as equivalents for all of the information are provided in the different forms, it is up to date, and the information is available from the same URI. Having an accessible, findable link from the URI to the alternate form is an acceptable approach. (in short - Server side solutions are acceptable - if the accessible forms are up-to-date and findable by going to the main URI.) Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. > > > S1 - Serving content in different forms in order to meet different user > > needs or preferences is an acceptable way to comply with the guidelines, > > -- as long as equivalents for all of the information are provided in > > the different forms, and it is all available from the same URI. > > (Accessible, findable links to alternate form(s) is allowed.) (Server > > side solutions are acceptable - as specified.) > > > >CMN This still seems unclear to me as a way of phrasing what we mean. Does it > >mean every version must be content-negotiated, to keep the URI the same (in > >parctice this doesn't work with existing systems, where a specific version > >can come from a generic, content-negotiated URI, or can come from a specific > >version URI), or does it mean that it must be possible (easy?) to get from > >one version to another by some means? > > > >I therefore propose that we mark this as an issue still open until we can > >produce (or the editors can propose) some wording that seems less fuzzy > > > >Charles McCN > > > > -- > Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 > 136 > W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 > 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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