- From: Bruce Bailey <bbailey@clark.net>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:07:41 -0400
- To: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- CC: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Allow me to restate the question from a side conversation Dave and I have having: Can a page/site which is WCAG AAA compliant consider itself "accessible" even though the default rendering with a popular browser turns the intended content into useless hash? Dave J Woolley wrote: > > From: Bruce Bailey [SMTP:bbailey@clark.net] > > > > > > look at the source of http://www.dors.state.md.us/mrc/programs.html and > > http://www.dors.state.md.us/mrc/kiosk.css and tell me how I might get text > [DJW:] > This breaks quite badly on NS4.5. Off list correspondence > suggests that this was intended as a "best viewed on > WebKiosk v.v" page, rather than a "best viewed on Any > Browser" <http://www.anybrowser.org/> one. > > The question was raised as to whether there was any duty > on accessible content authors to author for anything other > than fully compliant browsers. (I believe that the lack of > these means it is.)
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