Re: RE: When should I start using WCAG 2.0?

Hi David

You may be interested in my comment on the WCAG2 Working Draft on 
Level AAA. At the moment the various WCAG2 documents do not 
consistently deal with AAA, and I, too, do not understand why people 
can claim AAA without actually complying to all the requirements: 
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/issue-tracking/search_results.php?
terms=1023&submit=Search+All

Cheers,
Gian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eadie, David" <D.Eadie@gcal.ac.uk>
Date: Saturday, November 18, 2006 12:00 pm
Subject: RE: When should I start using WCAG 2.0?
To: cstrobbe <Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Christophe's e-mail reminded me that there was something I didn't 
> quite understand about the requirements for AAA. The Last Call 
> Working Draft includes:
> 
> "WCAG 2.0 conformance at level Triple-A (AAA) means that all Level 1,
> Level 2 and at least half (50%) of the Level 3 success criteria that
> apply to the content types used are met assuming user agent 
> support for
> only the technologies in the specified baseline."
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/complete.html#conformance-reqs)
> 
> My issues with the above are:
> 
> *	
> 	Why only 50% of the relevant Level 3 success criteria?
> *	
> 	In achieving at least half (50%) of the relevant Level 3 
success 
> criteria, which of the relevant Level 3 success criteria should be 
> met, and which can be ignored?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dave Eadie
> 
> 
> 

Received on Sunday, 19 November 2006 12:20:13 UTC