- From: Bailey Bruce <Bailey@Access-Board.gov>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:57:11 -0400
- To: "Andi Snow-Weaver" <andisnow@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> Even if we can't make this fail now, I am uncomfortable with this being the technique we rely on. I am still hoping for some contemporary examples of a well crafted search (based on non-conforming content) failing when conforming alternative are readily available (from an index page for example). > Search engine algorithms can change. Granted, we do not want WCAG 2.0 sites held hostage to a possibly capricious WWW search engine. But it sure is convenient to have Google as a benchmark! > So I don't want my conformance claim to be based on something I can't control that might turn up a different result in the future. I do not quite follow this logic behind this concern. As the site owner -- the entity claiming conformance -- do you not have control over the search engine provided for your site? Ensuring that *your* search engine *continues* to turn up your accessible versions would just be part of the requirements as your search engine behavior was revised. Why is this not something you could control? Or control at least as well as other content that goes up *after* your initial conformance claim.
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