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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: Jennifer Sutton
Date: May 9, 2012 2:53PM

Hello:

Karen, I'm not sure quite what you mean when you talk about WCAG
techniques for other formats. I believe there are already techniques
related to other formats such as Silverlight, Flash, and PDF. To see
them, start here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/

They're listed in the Table of Contents which is at an h2.

I agree it'd be nice if other formats were included; in some cases,
perhaps this issue is related more to authoring tools.

Getting back to the article, which was originally under discussion,
here's a thread that some might find of interest:

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?852325-Research-shows-adhering-to-WCAG-doesn-t-solve-blind-users-problems



Jennifer

At 01:26 PM 5/9/2012, you wrote:
>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
>
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