Failures Definition (Problem?)

Greetings colleagues,

Recently, when reviewing the "Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success
Criteria" (
https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/understanding-techniques.html#ut-understanding-techniques-failures-head)
I noticed what I consider a potential issue with some of the language in
that document, specificly the following:

"*Failures* are things that cause accessibility barriers and fail specific
success criteria... Content that has a *failure* does not meet WCAG success
criteria, unless an alternate version is provided without the failure."


​The question for this group is, ​do we really mean an alternative
*version*, or do we mean an alternative *technique*?

In chatting with James Craig Wednesday evening at TPAC, he and I both felt
that the current language could be interpreted as an open the door for the
'alternative water-fountain' (a.k.a. separate but equal - until the 2
versions get out of sync)

​Do others share this concern? Is this something we should look at
addressing (either as part of the 2.1 work, or as a separate task for this
WG)? (And yes, this is an 8-year-old potential editorial glitch)

Thoughts?

JF
-- 
John Foliot
Principal Accessibility Strategist
Deque Systems Inc.
john.foliot@deque.com

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