- From: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 08:10:41 -0500
- To: "Roberto Castaldo" <r.castaldo@iol.it>, "Gregg Vanderheiden" <gv@trace.wisc.edu>, "Roberto Scano \(IWA/HWG\)" <rscano@iwa-italy.org>, <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, <jbrewer@w3.org>
Roberto Scano wrote: <blockquote> We are talking about "separate" web sites with the same contents and functionalities; IMHO, checkpoint 11.4 only refers to single, isolated pages in a web site, not to an entire web site. It's true that a web site is made of many single pages, but checkpoint 11.4 doesn't speak about web sites; I do believe that WCAG message to developers is quite clear: "you may use CSS to create various skins, but do not create multiple separate web sites to address accessibility issues" Anyway, this is an interpretation problem that we should try and avoid in WCAG 2.0. </blockquote> John responds: I aagree with Roberto's interpretation of 11.4: it allows for separate, alternative versions of individual pages that cannot be made accessible for some reason, but not for separate, alternative versions of entire sites. I am also coming to agree with the position Lisa Seaman took in a recent post: that 11.4 *may* allow alternative *renderings* when they are generated from a single source, for example an XML source to which different XSLT transformations are applied. John Slatin
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