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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Dec 12, 2009 9:09PM

Geoff,
You're making a big assumption I think. I'm not suggesting anything in my question and am certainly not going to detail that any disabilities are "expendable".

You seemed to state that you didn't think that WCAG 2.0 was appropriate and I wanted to hear your thoughts on why. Now it sounds like your concern is whether it is WCAG 2.0 A or AA - is that correct? I'm still interested in your thoughts on this.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Senior Product Manager, Accessibility

Adobe Systems

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-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Geof Collis
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 7:55 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] WCAG 2.0 level A

I'm assuming by your questioning that WCAG 2.0 level A will cover
accessibility for all disabilities. So I ask you is level A
sufficient? If not, then which disabilities are expendable?

It has been my understanding that level AA is the benchmark, is this
not correct?

At 07:05 PM 12/12/2009, you wrote:
>Why do you feel it would be a mistake?
>Andrew Kirkpatrick
>Senior Product Manager, Accessibility
>Adobe Systems
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>Sent: Sat Dec 12 15:29:29 2009
>Subject: [WebAIM] WCAG 2.0 level A
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>Hi All
>
>Here in Ontario our Government has enacted a law at www.aoda.ca and
>one of the standards is for web accessibility. It has come to my
>attention that the powers that be are considering making WCAG 2.0
>level A as the benchmark. This would be a big mistake so I am looking
>for any information that I can present in opposition to this
>consideration. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.
>
>cheers
>
>Geof
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