- From: Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:41:36 +0000
- To: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
- Cc: John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>, "W3c-Wai-Gl-Request@W3. Org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
The techniques are informative not normative. So at best they are a recommendation from the WG on how to interpret a particular SC, they do not make something mandatory, or prohibit its use in meeting the SC in question. On 12/01/2018 15:11, David MacDonald wrote: > >This Working Group has attempted to tackle this in the past, and the > W3C consensus position is that WCAG 2.0 does not mandate their use. > > My understanding is that the consensus was "not to take the action to > add a failure technique because of some members would not consent to > adding it ... that is not the same as saying we took an action to have > "consensus to not mandate their use", ... I don't provide my consensus > to that proposal which has never been proposed. > > Not having consensus on one thing does not mean we have consensus on > another. > > Cheers, > David MacDonald > > *Can**Adapt**Solutions Inc.* > > Tel: 613.235.4902 > > LinkedIn > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmacdonald100> > > twitter.com/davidmacd <http://twitter.com/davidmacd> > > GitHub <https://github.com/DavidMacDonald> > > www.Can-Adapt.com <http://www.can-adapt.com/> > > / Adapting the web to *all* users/ > > / Including those with disabilities/ > > If you are not the intended recipient, please review our privacy policy > <http://www.davidmacd.com/disclaimer.html> > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:52 AM, Alastair Campbell > <acampbell@nomensa.com <mailto:acampbell@nomensa.com>> wrote: > > JF wrote:____ > > >we cannot retroactively say that they are *REQUIRED*, nor can we > fail content that does not use either form of landmark > determination. ____ > > __ __ > > I agreed that In WCAG 2.0 we couldn’t add it, but why can’t we > simple add a failure for that in 2.1?____ > > __ __ > > It would be similar in concept to F91:____ > > https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F91 > <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F91> ____ > > __ __ > > (I.e. lacking markup that the content implies visually, the point of > 1.3.1.)____ > > __ __ > > Why would we need a new (very-overlapping) SC for that?____ > > __ __ > > Create the new failure doc, link to up from 1.3.1 material… job > done?____ > > __ __ > > -Alastair____ > > __ __ > > -- @LeonieWatson @tink@toot.cafe tink.uk carpe diem
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