Thread Subject: Group B: 22(k) Text-only page

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From: Andi Snow-Weaver
Date: Tue, Nov 14 2006 4:40 PM


Current 508 wording:

22(k) A text-only page, with equivalent information or functionality, shall
be provided to make a web site comply with the provisions of this part,
when compliance cannot be accomplished in any other way. The content of the
text-only page shall be updated whenever the primary page changes.

WCAG 2.0 allows for alternate versions of the content but does not require
that they be "text-only". But WCAG 2.0 does contain the additional
restriction that the versions must be available from the same URI:
"Alternate Versions-L1: At least one version of the content meets all Level
1 success criteria, but alternate version(s) that do not meet all Level 1
success criteria may be available from the same URI."

Andi


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