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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


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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Margit Link-Rodrigue
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:34 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
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