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From: Steve Green
Date: Mar 7, 2013 5:02PM

It sounds like we are in significant, if not total, agreement.

WCAG requires websites to be 'reasonably usable', not 'equally usable'. We may not like it, but that's how it's written. Therefore if we are testing for compliance with WCAG, that's the criterion we must use. If a text version passes all the success criteria (and I am not saying it would), then the website is WCAG-compliant even if it's an ugly solution.

As testers, it's not our job to justify anything - we just test against whatever criteria are applicable in the context of each project. We may encourage our clients to go further in order to improve the user experience, but they have no obligation to do so.

Steve Green