- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 08:44:36 -0700
- To: Michael Cooper <michaelc@watchfire.com>
- Cc: "WAI GL (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Kibitzing. (My way of indicating that I'm just an informed spectator, not a WG member.) On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 07:49 AM, Michael Cooper wrote: > 2. Since this guideline is no longer relevant and fulfilling it is > sometimes > problematic for Web pages that otherwise conform to WCAG 1.0, it is > desirable to remove it from WCAG 1.0. We will therefore issue an > erratum to > WCAG 1.0. "Erratum" seems a bad choice for an update which was planned from the start -- the phrasing "Until user agents handle empty controls correctly ..." indicates that this is not a mistake per se, but a simple update. Accordingly, I think that this -- and any other "until user agent" clauses which are being phased out -- should be issued not as errata but as updates, perhaps as "WCAG 1.0 (Second Edition)" just as XHTML 1.0 was released in 2000 and a Section Edition in 2002. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ This, I think, would make more sense to Web developers who have been working with WCAG 1.0 for years and would be startled to learn that there was an _error_ in the original. Truth is, there wasn't -- so this should be presented as a natural update, not a bugfix. The circumstances of the checkpoint changed, but the checkpoint's validity (given broken assistive technology/UIs) did not. Also, as a bonus, this could easily lead to more attention to WCAG 1.0 (and ultimately to WCAG 2.0) through the issuance of the Second Edition than a mere erratum issue would provide. The actual work would be minimal -- simply folding in the additional updates and errata which have already been identified by the working group. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Author, CSS in 24 Hours http://cssin24hours.com Inland Anti-Empire Blog http://blog.kynn.com/iae Shock & Awe Blog http://blog.kynn.com/shock
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