- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 14:11:24 -0400
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- CC: Robert Neff <robneff@home.com>, IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, w3c-wai-eo@w3.org, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Does the curriculum help with this, can it be addressed there if not? can there be a requirement guidelines document? I think people need to understand how to apply the guidelines as requirement if that is what they intend to do. I fear we'll be shooting ourselves in the foot if this is left out. Kynn Bartlett wrote: > > At 07:03 AM 7/17/1999 , David Poehlman wrote: > >we must look at the total picture here. the guidelines and > >checkpoints serve as guides. > > The problem as I see it is that they are not being adopted > as "guides" but rather as "requirements"; the helpful > checkpoints that can be figured out by anyone with just a > smidgen of common sense can be easily twisted into firm, > hard checkpoints that MUST be satisfied in order to achieve > a "Double-AA compliance" rating. > > This is a big problem -- the Single-A, Double-AA, Triple-AAA > system does not have a caveat saying "you can still achieve > Double-AA rating if you do almost everything and use common > sense in what you do and don't choose to do." > > -- > Kynn Bartlett mailto:kynn@hwg.org > President, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ > AWARE Center Director http://aware.hwg.org/ -- Hands-On Technolog(eye)s Touching The Internet: mailto:poehlman@clark.net Voice: 301.949.7599 ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman http://poehlman.clark.net Dynamic Solutions Inc. Best of service for your small business network needs! http://www.dnsolutions.com ---sig off---
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