Read and Support WCAG Samurai’s WCAG Errata
Jens Meiert, June 10, 2007 / March 7, 2008.
This entry is filed under Web Development, Accessibility.
This week Joe Clark et al. published the WCAG Samurai Errata for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0, an extension of the first version of W3C’s accessibility guidelines.
The document (make sure to read the introduction, too) means a more realistic update for today’s accessibility requirements than the still unready WCAG 2.0 (I won’t pick at that here, though). While I cannot provide more details right now – bombed with todos I needed to delay while I was in Mainz –, I strongly encourage you to read these errata, and to support them by at least linking to and talking about them. And then let’s probably see how to improve and strengthen them even more.
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Comments
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On June 10, 2007, 15:50 CEST, Justin Thorp said:
Jens, have you read the latest draft of WCAG 2.0?
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On June 10, 2007, 16:04 CEST, Jens Meiert said:
No, not the latest draft (issued May 17), but I still follow its development relatively closely. Why?
(By the way, I especially welcome the errata’s requirement to output valid HTML and CSS. I remember many discussions on that even when I was a group member, especially at the end of 2005 …)
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On June 10, 2007, 19:17 CEST, Justin Thorp said:
I am just as much of a Web standardista as anyone but are Web accessibility guidelines the best place to put guidance that isn’t directly related to Web accessibility?
I would love to force people to make their site valid and semantic (x)HTML if I thought it’d achieve something but it just isn’t realistic. WCAG 2.0 isn’t toothless like many would imply. The thing is if you don’t give large corporations any wiggle room the guidelines just wont’ be followed period.
Let’s architect strategies to go after the big companies and get their large Web sites standards compliant.
http://alistapart.com/articles/standardsandcompanies
