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From: Katie Haritos-Shea
Date: Mon, Aug 20 2007 2:45 PM
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I prefer the complete WCAG information.
Katie HS
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>From: Andrew Kirkpatrick < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>Sent: Aug 19, 2007 2:42 PM
>To: TEITAC Web/Software Subcommittee < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>Subject: Re: [teitac-websoftware] Color
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>I'd be happy with:
>Color must not be used as the only visual means of conveying information.
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>I think that this covers the list, is shorter than wcag, and doesn't have the heavy "simultaneously visually
>evident" phrase that is unnecessarily complex.
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>Awk
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> -----Original Message-----
>From: Gregg Vanderheiden [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
>Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 06:30 AM Pacific Standard Time
>To: 'TEITAC Web/Software Subcommittee'
>Subject: [teitac-websoftware] Color
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>Was looking to harmonize WCAG with TEITAC but I think new WCAG proposal
>might be better
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>WCAG proposal
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>Any information <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/#informationbycolordef>
>that is conveyed by difference in color is also simultaneously visually
>evident without the color difference.
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>TEITAC language
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>Color must not be used as the only visual means of conveying information,
>indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual
>element.
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>Disadvantages of TEITAC
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>1) longer
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>2) uses list of things (which is always dangerous in provision --
>though useful in a note)
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>3) If I use blue text to convey information - it should not trigger
>this (if the blue has no meaning). However this language in past WCAGs has
>caused people to believe that they could not convey information in color
>(rather than by color).
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>Gregg
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