Hi Patrick
I gave a hurrah too in a blog post -
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/wcag-20-is-now-an-official-w3c-re
commendation/
But as I said in the post, there will be lots of interesting implications
for organisations - which shouldn't have come as a surprise as WCAG 2.0 has
been bubbling beneath the surface for a number of years.
One area of interest will be the format-neutrality of WCAG 2.0. With
WCAG 1.0 some people regarded it as only applying to HTML content e.g.
"The PowerPoint file isn't "web content". Not even if there's a web page
that makes it accessible. Sticking content in a powerpoint file isn't
"putting it on the web", it's deciding not to put it on the web."
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/videoing-talks-as-a-means-of-prov
iding-equivalent-experiences/#comment-69248
But now the PDFs and the PowerPoints are covered by the guidelines. And as
I suspect institutions won't have checked that PDFs (and MS Office files,
for example) don't implement the POUR principles (you can create accessible
PDFs, but how many do) there'll be a need to remove WCAG AA logos.
And anyone who claimed there Web site was universally accessible yesterday
will have to stop making such claims :-)
Let's encourage widening participation and social inclusion, I would argue -
and drop the mantra that universal accessibility is possible.
Brian
PS Additional thoughts on this matter are given at
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/category/accessibility/
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> Subject: Re: WCAG 2.0.
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> > Paul Boag
> > http://www.w3.org/2008/12/wcag20-pressrelease.html
> > Looks like we have new accessibility guidelines.
>
> And about time too! We can finally abandon the outdated
> (technical) advice in parts of WCAG 1 and focus on accessible
> outcomes.
>
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