Re: Can Silver have normative technology specific requirements?

Hi everyone,

Two quick points:


  1.  Cross-posting on WG & Silver can cause issues for people dealing with lots of email. I suggest either posting on WG or Silver, depending on topic. In this case, Silver. Perhaps also post to the WG with a pointer. Obviously I’ve had to cross-post to say this, I won’t again.

  2.  There is work on the conformance model going on now, so rather than people not in the Silver task force thinking about it from scratch, it might help to wait until there is something a little more concrete is in front of us.

For the Silver list, a follow up on Charles’ point:
> Can we move toward guidance that just says something closer to “no digital content should be restricted by a specific viewing context”? And then define context in a way that focuses on the human and not the technology?

AC: I tend to agree, but I think that would mean writing the guidelines (level) from the user point of view, more closely aligned to user-needs.
E.g. When using a digital product people are not restricted by viewing context (or orientation).

However, for most guidelines it would not be measurable / testable, and there is only so much you can say before getting into the technology-specifics that are testable.

Which reminds me, there is a good way for us to try that out and contribute:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2018OctDec/0060.html


Cheers,

-Alastair