- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 15:37:00 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 06-Sep-18 11:49, Florian Rivoal wrote: > Another Note I did not expect to find on the TR index page is "CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-CSS-TECHS/). Last published in 2000, it seems very outdated to me. I agree this is very outdated. It is a support document for WCAG 1.0, while the current version of WCAG is 2.1 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/ W3C Recommendation 05 June 2018 note that https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/ resolves to WCAG 2.1, implying WCAG 1.0 is superceeded by it? WCAG 2.1 has it's own support document https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/ W3C Editor's Draft 22 August 2018 linked from https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#wcag-2-1-supporting-documents which includes a CSS section. I would link to that section, except the document has poor accessibility, uses list items instead of headings [see https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/general/G141 ] and has no IDs so I can't link to the CSS Techniques section, nor does it show up in the table of contents. > Some of it still makes sense, but some assumes things that aren't true any more. Examples > * It suggests that physical units like the pt unit should only being used on medium whose physical size you know > * It claims color names to be avoided in preference to numeric colors, presumably because color names were unpredictable and you couldn't be sure you'd get good contrast > * It recommends floats and abspos as the main way to do layout, layering, and alignment > > There should be better resources than this nowadays. This looks like a good candidate for obsoleting as well. It does have nice screenshots of Opera 4.01, though. CSSWG should probably review the WCAG 2.1 CS techniques to be sure that they make sense and do not recommend any bad practices or make unwarranted assumptions. Given that though, perhaps the CSS techniques for WCAG 1.0 can be obsoleted? -- Chris Lilley @svgeesus Technical Director @ W3C W3C Strategy Team, Core Web Design W3C Architecture & Technology Team, Core Web & Media
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