- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:10:22 -0500
- To: "Jamie Mackay" <Jamie.Mackay@cultureandheritage.govt.nz>, "Kynn Bartlett" <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Kynn! Where were you when we needed you and how would you suggest we go about providing avenues for compliance? It seems that the guidelines were in the making for a long time and there was a lot of thought given to how to assist with their implementation. what makes it tough here is the ever changing targets and technologies. We are all so sorry that you have become so sour in the last year. As a screen reader user, I have a less unweildy suggestion for textually iconnizing the conformance ratings: a a a a a a although one must listen closely, it works. keep it as simple as possible. there are other things that can be done here too like using - between them or a full stop <.> and you can guess the rest. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kynn Bartlett" <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com> To: "Jamie Mackay" <Jamie.Mackay@cultureandheritage.govt.nz> Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: December 19, 2000 9:32 PM Subject: Re: Is Triple-A possible? At 05:44 PM 12/19/2000 , Jamie Mackay wrote: >I was wondering if there is such a thing as an AAA rated site which uses >images and for which the CSS code is viewable? I feel the need for some >'real world' examples... My guess, honestly, is "no" because WCAG is so subjective and Triple-A triply so, which means that while you can _claim_ Triple-A conformance, anyone who wishes to can come along and second-guess your claim and use the "fuzzy language" of WCAG 1.0 -- such as "when appropriate", "until user agents", "clearest possible", "simplest", "when necessary" -- to "prove" that you are not compliant according to their interpretation. Because of the potential backlash -- and because Triple-A, by definition, does not eliminate any additional access barriers beyond Double-A -- I would never advise anyone to "shoot for" Triple-A web accessibility. (Then again, I may be the wrong person to answer this, because I feel that the Single-A, Double-A, Triple-A compliance scheme does not work at all.) --Kynn PS: I urge you and other list participants to spell out Single-A, Double-A, Triple-A, instead of A, AA, and AAA, because it may result in some problems on screenreaders or other devices. -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Director of Accessibility, Edapta http://www.edapta.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ AWARE Center Director http://www.awarecenter.org/ What's on my bookshelf? http://kynn.com/books/
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