> On Jan 22, 2017, at 8:45 PM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote: > >> John Foliot: I am becoming increasingly concerned that this phrase - ‘mechanism is available’ - is fast becoming the new "Until user agents...", > > I had already thought that's what 2.0 did instead, wasn't it? E.g. Bypass blocks, if user-agents supported landmarks for keyboard-users we wouldn't need skip links anymore, for many cases at least. > Mechanism is available is a very powerful and forward looking approach. It says “if the mech isnt there in browsers - or you do something to break that one — then you need to provide the mechanism yourself (this also speaks to Alastair’s #4). But it also allows that when browsers add things (like browsers that all added zoom or font sizing with wrap) that authors no longer have to do that — as long as they don’t break it.
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