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Re: internal accessibility guidelines

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Jun 6, 2014 12:30PM

I have seen this done before, and I think you described it correctly when
you said "massaged them for internal consumption and use as opposed to".

As time goes on and technologies change and evolve, the W3C updates best
practices and guidelines accordingly to best fit these new developments, and
AT venders and browsers use these guidelines to ensure that everybody stays
on the same page between developers, browsers, and ATs. This is the only way
to maintain consistency and reliability.

So, the danger in deviating within isolated environments, is that the
customized guidelines will eventually no longer remain synchronized with
what browsers and ATs support.