- From: Ineke van der Maat <inekemaa@xs4all.nl>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:39:30 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hello, In Germany the parliament member Hubert Hüppe has a site and claims that this is WCAG-AA-compliant. Ironically under the WCAG-AA-logo is stated that the site is accessible for people with visual impairment.(http://www.huberthueppe.de ) Realizing that using WCAG-logos is also always more a commercial reason for impressing clients or competitors, I think it is better that in the page with the download conformance logos http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1-Conformance.html explicitely is stated something like: showing the conformancelogos on a page means that the page has been made as accessible as possible for all visitors, corresponding to the claimed conformance-level. And that claiming accessible for one or more specified groups of visitors violates the meaning and prohibits the use of these conformance-logos. Why is the text "Responsibility for accuracy of claims" in the bottom of this page? Only few peole will scroll the page more than seeing the conformance-logos and read it. Is not it better to move this text just above the text "how to use the logos"? Perhaps WCAG can ask the parliament member to remove the conformance-logo from mentioned page? Is any authority existing that can remove logos from pages when the logos are very clearly misused ( e.g. no valid code and claiming level aa or aaa) and people are not prepared to remove the logo? I mean things that can be tested by every online accessibility (like Bobby or WAVE) or (x)html-validation tool?. Cheers Ineke van der Maat
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