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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: May 9, 2012 3:58PM

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

This too supports the need for a standardized design system for rendering
web content accessibly, since both usability and accessibility can be
addressed at the same time by automating the low level processes that often
cause the most problems for screen reader and keyboard only users.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Sutton" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Guidelines are only half of the story: accessibility
problems encountered by blind users on the web


> 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
>>
>>