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From: Angela French
Date: Apr 6, 2011 11:33AM

I am doing my first accessibility review of a site specifically using WCAG 2.0 and I'm having some trouble making the mental cross-walk from 1.0 to 2.0. In particular, I am struggling with how to present results to management in a way that is easily understood in terms of what "rule" is being broken and the severity of that "rule."

Here is a specific example I'm struggling with. A content developer did not use the proper html element to convey proper structure. Where, in my opinion, an unordered list should have been used to present a list of links, the content provider wrote the links in a paragraph tag with the pipe mark between links like this:

<p>< a href="">link one</a> | <a href="">link two</a> | etc. </p>.

This is semantically incorrect, but what Principle/Guideline/Success Criterion/etc. does it violate? It does not follow General Technique 115<http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20081103/general.html#G115>;.
So is it Principle 1 that is not being conformed to? Guideline 1.3.1 (which is level A)? General Technique 115?
What is the best practice method of communicating the failure presented in this example?

Thank you for any advice.

Angela French
Internet Specialist
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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