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Re: Guidelines are only half of the story: accessibility problems encountered by blind users on the web

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: May 9, 2012 2:26PM

One thing I see is that the WCA Guidelines are being used as "standards" for
all types of file formats when we are developing standards specific to those
file formats.

I haven't read the study but in our language we seem to talk about
guidelines and standards as if they were the same thing.

Hopefully as we develop standards for specific document formats and types of
content they can be incorporated and referred to in the WCA Guidelines as
specific standards for specific types of content.

Cheers, Karen