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Re: WCAG 2.0 Compliance criteria for internal or non public websites

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From: Evans, Donald (Contractor)
Date: Dec 9, 2009 10:51AM

As a side note, the partial conformance claim in WCAG 2.0 was not intended to give you an easy out. It was intended to address the issue of content that is beyond your control. So if you have produced a video and don't want to caption it, that's not a reason to use the partial conformance claim.

An example where you might be able to use it: You want to join the Amazon affiliate program and sell books on your web site. Amazon gives you a piece of code that is an iframe. Amazon delivers the content to your page. The Amazon ad has a picture of a book and the book does not have an ALT attribute. You can do nothing to add the ALT so you could claim a partial conformance.

---don