- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:03:58 +0200
- To: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hi list, At 13:04 7/06/2007, Andi Snow-Weaver wrote: >Here are my comments on the Alternate Versions Conformance Requirement: >http://tinyurl.com/3yj2n2: > >Under Option 1: > >(...) >- Disadvantages: To the user, it could be difficult to find the link to the >conforming version This is an argument against allowing non-conforming pages with alternative versions, rather than an argument against the other options (which is fine by me). >Under Option 3:: > >- User Advantages: For the user, it is easy to find the alternate version >when navigating the website because links to both versions are in the same >location. Not necessarily: the current text allows that "there is *a* common page ..." (emphasis added), not that every link to a non-conforming page is accompanied by a link to the conforming alternative. The only technique listed for option 3 recommends "having a page *somewhere* in the conformance scope...", but it needn't be easy to find. Even an orphaned page would make a site conform. So if you land on the non-conforming version after following a link from outside... Moreover, there is currently no requirement that the link to the conforming version should be close to the link to the non-conforming version, and that is yet another reason to scrap option 3. >Also, this is an improvement over the current situation where >authors can provide the links to accessible versions in some obscure page >on the website that users will not be able to find even when navigating the >website and encountering the non-conforming version. I disagree, for reasons given above. I submitted another argument against option 3 last month: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2007AprJun/0142.html>. Best regards, Christophe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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