- From: Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:22:50 -0400
- To: WCAG WG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <53B407AA.5030902@w3.org>
Here is a proposal for the remainder of the issue raised in LC-2895
about disclaiming the role of techniques for technologies. We already
accepted a paragraph for the disclaimer. This proposal is intended to
increase the likelihood of people seeing the disclaimer. It has had
preliminary approval from people present on last week's WCAG
teleconference, and has been approved by the EOWG. So now I'm running it
by the entire list to solicit formal approval from the WCAG WG at next
week's meeting. Michael
For each individual Technique page (e.g.,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/ARIA1>), update as follows:
* Add a new section at the top entitled "Important information about
Techniques" with content:
See Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria
<http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/understanding-techniques.html>
for important information about the usage of these informative
techniques and how they relate to the normative WCAG 2.0 success
criteria. The Applicability section explains the scope of the
technique, and the presence of techniques for a specific technology
does not imply that the technology can be used in all situations to
create content that meets WCAG 2.0.
* Delete the section "Techniques are Informative" from the bottom of
those pages, since it is made redundant by the above addition at the
top of the pages.
For each technology-specific page (e.g.,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/aria.html>, in the info at the top,
add the middle paragraph below (wording that WCAG WG & EOWG already
agreed upon):
This Web page lists [technology] Techniques from Techniques for WCAG
2.0: Techniques and Failures for Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0. Technology-specific techniques do not replace the
general techniques: content developers should consider both general
techniques and technology-specific techniques as they work toward
conformance.
Publication of techniques for a specific technology does not imply
that the technology can be used in all situations to create content
that meets WCAG 2.0 success criteria and conformance requirements.
Developers need to be aware of the limitations of specific
technologies and provide content in a way that is accessible to
people with disabilities.
For additional important information about the techniques, see
Introduction to Techniques for WCAG 2.0. For a list of techniques
for other technologies, see the Table of Contents.
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