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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Sep 3, 2002 3:44AM

At 8:52 AM +0300 9/2/02, Jukka Korpela wrote:
>As an implication, WCAG 1.0 priorities alone are not a sufficient basis for
>accessibility strategy. That is, it would be irrational to make it the
>primary objective to satisfy priority 1 requirements and only after that
>consider priority level 2, then priority 3.

Yep! I hate to do the Cassandra act, but I pointed this out when
priority-based compliance schemes were introduced in WCAG1, and nobody
cared to listen at the time. The result has been three years of confusion
about what constitutes a proper accessibility strategy -- including
the (IMNSHO) mess of Section 508. WCAG1 really provides a serious
disincentive to a rational accessibility plan.

--Kynn

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