- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 14:14:38 +1000 (EST)
- To: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Jason White wrote: > > The whole point of the guidelines, though, is to address that which is not > true for nearly everyone on the Web, and to cover all of the reasonable > possibilities in so doing. That wasn't written at all well. What I meant was, one purpose of the guidelines is to cover the cases in which the assumptions that can be made with respect to a majority - even a substantial majority - of people on the Web, don't apply. Not only do the guidelines call for robustness in the use of Web-related technologies, but they must also be robust themselves by anticipating and dealing with unusual scenarios that may arise during the application of the specification. In this respect they are similar to legislation, which is typically drafted with a view toward covering all of the foreseeable possibilities and applications, and formulating the requirements to ensure that the desired results are achieved in these cases.
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