- From: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:20:30 -0500
- To: "Alastair Campbell" <ac@nomensa.com>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
It is not always possible to implement guidelines in a device which is why we need clear content guidelines. Yes, we have uaag, it needs updating too and when it gets updated, it should move in a direction which takes these user agents into account. When we wrote the original uaag, we wrote it based on wcag v1.0. -- Jonnie Apple Seed With his: Hands-On Technolog(eye)s On Jan 31, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Alastair Campbell wrote: Patrick wrote: > In general, I'd love to see the issue you mention addressed not by > maintaining "until user agent" guidelines, but by strong lobbying > to get the manufacturers of these non-compliant user agents to follow > UAAG and support web standards. Otherwise, we may as well include long > sections on "how to deal with IE5.0 and Netscape 4.x" in the > guidelines as well... Definitely, there are simply too many user agents and input/output devices for it to be practical to try and support the details of every single one. For me, that is *why* the W3C standards are so important: everyone should know their bit. It's only when the user agents do their part that the WCAG guidelines become practical for authors. Kind regards, -Alastair -- Alastair Campbell | Director of Research & Development 0117 929 7333 | ac@nomensa.com Please refer to the following disclaimer for this message: http://www.nomensa.com/email-disclaimer.html
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