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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Dec 9, 2009 10:45AM

The WCAG 2.0 success criteria are for WCAG 2.0, not Section 508. There is overlap, but if you want to meet Section 508 you do not necessarily need to meet all WCAG 2.0 success criteria.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Senior Product Manager, Accessibility

Adobe Systems

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Margit Link-Rodrigue
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] WCAG 2.0 Compliance criteria for internal or non public websites

You have to ask yourself what you are trying to achieve. If you want to meet
legal requirements as defined in Section 508, then you have to meet all
success criteria for WCAG 2.0, including 1.1.1 which refers to audio content
and is a Level A requirement.

If you simply want to comply with some company rules and processes (e.g.
CMMI), then your company has to clearly state in your supporting
documentation that you are currently striving for partial compliance and
what your timeline is to achieve full compliance.

It is unethical, in my opinion, if you are trying to award yourself a
compliance seal if you leave out potential future employees/Intranet users
that are hearing impaired. Intranet or not doesn't matter, because the
location of the file is a temporary aspect and the lines between
Intranet/Extranet/Internet usually get blurrier the larger a company grows.

Thanks,
Margit