Re: Is it 2 or 3 years that WCAG will be updated? - I thought it was approx. 3

Some people find legislation a compelling reason to do accessibility, 
other people do not. I work for a US accessibility agency, and also for 
the UK Government, so I witness both these attitudes on a first-hand and 
daily basis.

So may I suggest we stop discussing whether accessibility exists despite 
legislation or in spite of it, and accept the fact that we should 
consider people in both groups.

Let's look at the people who depend on legislation first. It took 
Germany about three years to adopt WCAG 2.0, it took Canada five years 
to do it (except for the bits they didn't adopt), the EU might get 
around to it next year (but only for public sector websites), it's 
anyone's guess whether the US will ever upgrade from WCAG 1.0, and the 
UK doesn't reference WCAG at all.

So we have one group of people waiting an entirely unpredictable amount 
of time for their respective governments to decide if, when, and how 
much of any new guidance they will adopt. That's ok though, because they 
will continue to use the current legislative requirements for region 
whilst they wait.

Now let's look at the people who do not depend on legislation. They will 
adopt new guidance as it is released, and if there is even the smallest 
chance that they will use that guidance to make things better for 
disabled and older people on the web, why would we make them wait?

So the choice seems straight-forward to me... we can either move slowly 
and make everyone wait, or we can move more quickly and enable everyone 
to adopt the new guidance as and when it suits them best.

Léonie.
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@LeonieWatson tink.uk Carpe diem

Received on Wednesday, 9 November 2016 00:44:42 UTC