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Re: Must "technologies being used" be in a SC's text, if that SC has support in 2 technologies?

From: Gregg C Vanderheiden <greggvan@umd.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 07:57:38 -0400
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To: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> 
Good post 
I think I agree with your point about keeping focus on web content.    If I understand it. 
but I think we should stick to it even a bit more than you do. 

see below

Gregg C Vanderheiden
greggvan@umd.edu



> On Apr 24, 2017, at 4:08 AM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote:
> 
> Gregg wrote:
> > I agree that scoping it is not desirable, since it gives a pass to anyone that uses a technology that doesn’t support it.
>  
> Or we use the “mechanism is available” language so that technologies without the user-agent ability to override styles can pass if the author includes the mechanism.

Yes.  But we must use this only when we feel that the Mechanism is reasonable 

>  
> However, I think the basic principle of whether these are scoped to “web content” or aiming for a wider reach is still there.


The name of the Guidelines is  “WEB CONTENT Accessibility Guidelines.”   If they can be more broadly used that is fine — but we do not have the mandate or nor charge to write guidelines for other things.  I think we should stick to Web Content.


>  
> If the mechanism language is included that is off-putting to anyone working with web content.

I think I agree with where you are going — but this is and IF-THEN sentence but there is no THEN so I don’t know exactly where you were going with it.


>  
> I would prefer to push the accessibility of web content further (in the “web content” guidelines), and mark some SC is less or not-applicable to non-web contexts, which is presumably what the Web2ICT report did?
>  

I agree  we should focus on Web Content.

I don’t think we should be commenting on application outside of Web Content.   Yes that is what the WCAG2ICT report did  — but that was led by a special task force that included people from outside of the web world as well.   Revising WCAG2ICT should involve some external input — and I suggest we stick to web content and not open up non-web content.  That is more work hours than you can imagine and we are having trouble advancing what we have in Web content.



So I agree — stick to web content
I don’t think we should be making judgements outside of web content 



G 


> Kind regards,
>  
> -Alastair
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