[from WCAG WG via Loretta] Fwd: WCAG 2 at a glance

  [ftr][comments in brackets are added by Shawn]

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i put your last proposal on this week's survey, and I'm passing along the comments that came in. However, we also agreed that we didn't see anything that was a showstopper, just places where WE thought we saw improvements. :-)

So use your (and EO's best judgment).

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I like --> Provide captions and alternatives for audio and video content.
Better than --> Provide captions and other alternatives for multimedia.

[see minutes from 25 Feb for reasons for "multimedia"]

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I think this is hard to understand. ---> Create content that can be presented in different ways, including by assistive technologies, without losing meaning.
OK as summary - but doesn’t tell the user what to do. So I guess OK for summary but if someone can come up with something that is less mysterious that would be great

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Change Robust to say: --> Maximize compatibility with future assistive technologies and accessibility features in user agents.
or what WCAG says --> Maximize compatibility with current and future user agents, including assistive technologies.

Maximize compatibility with current and future user agents, including assistive technologies.

I'm still not happy with 4.1. To me, it reads like "Maximize compatability with HTML" or "Maximize compatability with CSS", which is not the goal. "Maximize compatibility with different browsers and viewers for a technology"?

[does not fit. see http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/changelogs/cl-quicktips#oh41 and 4 March EOWG minutes]

Also Prefer:
Provide captions and alternatives for audio and video content.

For Robust suggest:
Maximize compatibility with accessibility features in browsers and assistive technologies.

How about 4.1
Maximize compatibility with browsers and other user agents.

[doesn't fit]

I like the old 1.4 better... the new is:
"•Make it easier for users to see and hear content."
To me this is trivially obvious but doesn't say how to do it.

[old one had "sufficient contrast"; however,there are several SC under 1.4 that are not directly related to sufficient contrast: 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 1.4.8, 1.4.9. EOWG thinks that including "sufficient contrast" will likely encourage many readers to assume that contrast is all that the guidelines covers.

The words "sufficient contrast" didn't make much longer and it said how to do it.

Received on Thursday, 3 March 2011 23:36:22 UTC