- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 11:20:07 -0800
- To: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@sonic.net>, lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru, poehlman1@home.com, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 10:08 AM -0800 12/24/01, Scott Luebking wrote: >The learning and understanding of the guidelines is still fairly steep. >For example, what does linearization mean and how does a web page >developer learn how something will be linearized? How much time is >needed to learn the difference between theoretical CSS and what the >results actually look like for the various browsers? It's also important to note that there are many questions related to the current guidelines (WCAG 1.0) which _are not answered consistently by people in the know_. In other words, informed minds will disagree; you may ask Charles McCathieNevile if he thinks SVG is a good solution and under what circumstances, and you may ask Cynthia Shelly, and you may ask Jim Ley, and you may ask me -- and you'd probably get 4 different answers. This isn't because we're all contrary people (well, maybe some of us are) but rather because there are not cut-and-dried answers to many things (e.g. most "until user agents" clauses are _met_ by at least one browser these day) and interpretation is required to apply WCAG 1.0. And that interpretation also requires knowing a heck of a lot about web design and accessibility and assistive technology, and even then those of us who _do_, we don't all arrive at the same conclusion. Therefore I agree that the learning curve on WCAG 1.0 is quite steep and treacherous. It seems easy at first glance -- and we do try to tell people it's simple -- but when you get into complexities of user agent support, of tag trivia, and of real world limitations, it gets _messy_ my friends. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Web Accessibility Expert-for-hire http://kynn.com/resume January Web Accessibility eCourse http://kynn.com/+d201
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