- From: Alistair Garrison <alistair.garrison@accessinmind.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:47:16 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
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Dear All, I agree. To my mind, I still believe it might be far less confusing to the reader if the guidance provided through the General techniques document was written directly into each technology specific techniques document (i.e. HTML, CSS, etc.) as specific techniques, examples and tests - removing, the need for the General Techniques document entirely. This might also help to straighten them out, getting the techniques where they belong. Alistair _____ From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Gregg Vanderheiden Sent: 10 February 2005 18:20 To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: RE: General Techniques... This is a problem. And we do need to straighten them out. Also we could have a link that would patch the general on the specific. But they are organized differently and I don't think we can shuffle them together. And I don't think we should maintain them already shuffled or the text will vary from one to another over time. We are working on getting the techniques where they belong. They currently are mixed up. Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. Director - Trace R & D Center University of Wisconsin-Madison _____ From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Alistair Garrison Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:24 AM To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: General Techniques... Dear All, Over the past weeks I have been undertaking an end-to-end analysis of the WCAG 2.0 Guidelines and Techniques (as far as reasonably possible). The issue I come across most is the fact Technology Specific techniques and General techniques don't seem to line up - leaving me confused about what I need to do for conformance to WCAG 2.0. You can find technology specific techniques which go too far and specify things which should be left to the General techniques i.e. specified values for alt text; or General techniques which are over-extended to talk about technology specific things i.e. captions, mathematical expressions, video. Again, I state that this is causing me a great deal of confusion, and I'm sure others are finding (or will find) the same thing. To my mind, it might be far less confusing to the reader if the guidance provided through the General techniques document was written directly into each technology specific techniques document (i.e. HTML, CSS, etc.) as specific techniques, examples and tests - removing, the need for the General Techniques document entirely. I would be very interested to hear the thoughts and comments of others on this matter. Alistair Alistair Garrison Managing Director Accessinmind Limited UK Filial Tel.: 0046 8 44 65 287 Website: http://www.accessinmind.com IMPORTANT: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the addressee only. It may contain privileged and/or confidential information. If it has come to you in error, please notify the sender immediately. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, copy, print, distribute or rely on its contents. All e-mails and any attachments are believed, but not warranted, to be virus free. However, all e-mails should be virus checked before being downloaded and we accept no responsibility therefore.
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