RE: Validity

Audiences are not specified in baselines.  Only technologies.

Many companies want to conform to WCAG but cannot make claims.  So we can't
predicate any success criterion on what is in a claim since that would
require a claim.

Ufdah. 

Gregg

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Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. 
Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr.
Director - Trace R & D Center 
University of Wisconsin-Madison 


-----Original Message-----
From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of Gez Lemon
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 11:13 AM
To: Bob Regan
Cc: WCAG WG mailing list
Subject: Re: Validity


Hi Bob,

On 04/11/05, Bob Regan <bregan@macromedia.com> wrote:
> I believe there needs to be a mechanism whereby an author may deviate
> from valid code for reasons specific to accessibility for the audience
> defined in their own baseline.

That would be a great start to working towards some kind of
compromise, which I believe was the intent of guideline 4.1 before the
meeting in Brussels. Would validity be considered acceptable if there
was an exception for instances where non-conformance improved
accessibility without degradation to other users?

Best regards,

Gez

Received on Friday, 4 November 2005 17:42:31 UTC