RE: Add a 'Date reviewed' field to techniques and failures



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> From: Alastair Campbell [mailto:acampbell@nomensa.com]
> So the content of all 600+ techniques / failures are reviewed every time any one
> of them is updated?


No, only the techniques/failures in the specific document that is up for publication at a particular time.

Another way of thinking about this is the following. If a technique, when properly implemented, satisfies a success criterion in WCAG 2.0, then unless a flaw is found in it, this remains true in perpetuity. "Once conformant, always conformant", as one might say. So, even if it were published six years ago, unless there's a problem with it, it's still valid and and will always be so.


>
> Even if that were true, a developer looking something up and landing on
> technique H2 (which mentions XHTML) probably does not assume that, so a date
> would help there.

I don't think a date would help much, but the text could be modified to calrify the reference to XHTML when the HTML techniques are next revised for publication.

I'm still unclear as to what the underlying motivations are behind this proposal.


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Received on Wednesday, 18 May 2016 14:29:32 UTC