RE: Scope of WCAG 2.0 (was: Re: Minor edits to the draft charter)

OK with me.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Wendy A Chisholm [mailto:wendy@w3.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:35 pm
To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: Scope of WCAG 2.0 (was: Re: Minor edits to the draft charter)



To address Roberto's comment, does anyone disagree with replacing the
scope 
of WCAG 2.0 [1] with:
  "These guidelines cover a wide range of issues and recommendations for

making Web content more accessible. They include recommendations to make

pages accessible and usable by people with a full range of 
disabilities.  In some cases something that makes Web content more
'usable' 
by one person makes it 'accessible' to another.  The guidelines do not 
attempt to address all usability recommendations, but  instead focus on 
those aspects of usability that increase accessibility."

--wendy

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#scope

At 03:03 AM 8/23/2003, you wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Wendy A Chisholm" <wendy@w3.org>
>To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
>Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 8:12 PM
>Subject: Minor edits to the draft charter
>
>
> >4. Scope:  item #1 under scope now reads:
> >         "Advance WCAG 2.0 further towards a W3C Recommendation, per 
> >requirements ...."
>
>Hi,
>we have received from Michele Diodati (www.diodati.org) an italian 
>expert of accessibility that has done some translations of W3C rec., 
>the following question:
>
>http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#scope
>
>"These guidelines cover a wide range of issues and recommendations for 
>making Web content more accessible. They include recommendations to 
>make pages accessible and usable by people with a full range of 
>disabilities. In general, the guidelines do not include standard 
>usability recommendations except where they have specific ramifications

>for accessibility beyond standard usability impacts."
>
>For a non-english speaking (and I think also for english ones) is not 
>clear what means "In general, the guidelines do not include standard 
>usability recommendations except where they have specific ramifications

>for accessibility beyond standard usability impacts." and must be 
>explained in more "plain language".
>
>If the "scope" is not clear, is it not a good thing :)

-- 
wendy a chisholm
world wide web consortium
web accessibility initiative
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
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