Re: standard vs guideline

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Phill Jenkins wrote:

> Should W3C rename the WAI guidelines as standards?
>
> For example:
>
> Web Content Accessibility Standard (WCAS)
> Authoring Tools Accessibility Standard (ATAS)
> User Agent Accessibility Standard (UAAS)


No.  They are guidelines, not standards.  A standard should be
something against which you can unambiguously evaluate, and not
at all like the WAI guidelines, parts of which are going to be
matters of judgement with no definitive resolution.

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Received on Tuesday, 5 March 2002 20:37:13 UTC