- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:33:23 +1000
- To: Web Content Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
In attempting to solve the problems associated with user agent support, "baselines", etc., in WCAG 2.0 under guideline 4.2, I suggest that the following requirements be considered. A good solution should: 1. Construct a recipe for creating baselines rather than a baseline. The minimal requirements will vary by time, technology and other factors. 2. Be consistent with, and preferably supportive of, UAAG 1.0. c 3. At level 1, it should concentrate only on technical issues of accessibility, excluding questions about cost and broad availability (i.e., at level 1 if there exists an implementation meeting certain technical requirements, this should be enough). 4. At level 2 or 3, other considerations may be taken into account, including general availability, cost, cross-platform support, etc. 5. Sample baselines should be provided to accompany the guidelines, including one that is suggested by the working group for general use in designing publicly available Web content, and another that captures the implicit WCAG 1.0 baseline. These baselines should be non-normative, in keeping with the principle of providing a means of defining baselines that will evolve with time, rather than fixing a required level of technology support in the guidelines themselves.
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