- From: Patrick Lauke <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:59:49 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> This is precisely the problem with WCAG, in any version. It is too > ambiguous. If the guidelines were all clear, such as using ALT > attributes, they would be more widely understood, accepted and > practiced. That can be done in the specific technique documents for HTML and CSS. That level of detail should not creep into the main technology agnostic WCAG document. > It needs to get away from ludicrous requirements that require > content to > be comprehensible -- because that's not a measurable guideline. > Therefore it should simply be left up to the developer or > designer. Why > does WCAG bother mentioning something like that at all? Because otherwise what you have is a document detailing purely "technical accessibility", which can be quite far away from the goal of real accessibility. Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk
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