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Re: WCAG 2.0 'accessibility supported'

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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Feb 6, 2009 4:35AM


Here's my interpretation of it:

> Mark Magennis

> 1. Does the fact that many users use IE6 (with its default settings)
mean that the use of pixel values in HTML is not
> accessibility supported? And if all users switch to using a browser
that can resize text specified in pixels, would that
> mean the use of pixel values is now accessibility supported?

I'd say that yes, pixel values are ok because there are widely available
user agents that support resizing.

> 2. If the HTML page was removed and the same plain text sentence was
presented in a PDF file such that it could be resized
> by all user agents that display PDFs, would that use of PDF be
accessibility supported?

If the PDF was accessible in itself, yes.

> 3. Does this mean that whatever technology is used (HTML, PDF or
whatever), it is not the technology itself that is either
> accessibility supported or not, but the way that technology is used or
the specific functionalities of the technology
> that are used?

The former: it's a technology that is accessibility-supported (or, to be
more specific, the particular aspect of the technology that's used is
accessibility-supported - the technology as a whole may have parts that
are not supported, but you as an author only use the bit that is indeed
accessibility-supported).

P