To be honest, I haven't read the current version of WCAG 2 in detail. Looking through it now, much of it has changed for the better but there are still parts that to me don't seem very sensible or achievable. As far as I can tell WCAG 2 still doesn't require valid code and it allows you to say a site conforms, but not include certain URIs.
Guidelines (even if they're as extensive as the 16,000 words WCAG 2) cannot cover every scenario on the web. My point about the automated checking was that the SCs are written so you can pass many of them by just checking the code (e.g. HTML). A smaller number of SCs aimed at getting real people to test a website could do far better.
That being said, I think WCAG 2 will make for some light reading this weekend!
David Hulbert
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>>> "Patrick H. Lauke" <[log in to unmask]> 29/09/2008 15:37 >>>
Well, it's a bit passé to quote Joe's article, as it's now out of date *
he's even rescinded it publicly in his retirement announcement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/
P
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