I'd like to second Patrick's comments. WCAG 2 was looking touch and go
for a while but it is in a good place right now. We are certainly
beginning to recommend it to a few of our clients and will be doing so
more often as time goes by.
On 29 Sep 2008, at 15:37, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> Well, it's a bit passé to quote Joe's article, as it's now out of
> date — he's even rescinded it publicly in his retirement
> announcement http://blog.fawny.org/2007/06/08/retired/
>
> "Web accessibility is being handled. I haven't read the new version
> of WCAG 2, but I've read the change documents, and it's clearly much
> better."
>
> Have you actually checked the current version of WCAG 2? It *has*
> changed considerably since 2001. The concepts laid out in 2 are, for
> the most part, completely sensible and achievable. It's tech
> agnostic, so won't age quite as badly as WCAG 1 — but admittedly the
> informative tech documents need a good bit of work yet. The
> automatic checker stuff is simply wrong, sorry — there's a
> difference between ensuring that each SC is testable and saying that
> it's geared towards automated checks.
>
> For info, my own take at the time ofon the significant changes in
> WCAG 2 that prompted Joe's reconsideration: http://www.webstandards.org/2007/06/11/review-wcag2-may2007-working-draft/
>
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