A report is available from the European Commission's Information Society which aims to measure how well a selection of EU Web Sites meet both WCAG1 and WCAG2.
Reading this report I am concerned that very specific technical criteria are required to be met in order to meet each of the guidelines. Certain of these criteria, in my view, are far more restrictive than required by WCAG2. These criteria are detailed in Annex 1 .

Some of the specific criteria where I believe this is overly restrictive are:

1.1.1 Non-Text Content

Decorative content not rendered using background images is a failure

1.3.1 Info and Relationships

Layout tables are prohibited - and table which doesn't represent data is a failure

2.4.1 Bypass Blocks

Skip Navigation links are the only way specified that a page can meet this guideline

4.1.1 Parsing

Specifies that significant validation errors be avoided without specifying what significant means.

Would the working group consider responding to this report and clarifying how WCAG 2.0 is intended to be used.

Thanks,
James

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