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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.


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Subject: [WebAIM] internal accessibility guidelines

Hi there,

Curious to get a feel for how many of you maintain internal accessibility
guidelines or standards (i.e., you have taken WCAG or other
guidelines/standards and massaged them for internal consumption and use as
opposed to pointing folks to what's already out there) for:
1. web development,
2. web design,
3. mobile development,
4. mobile design,
5. other technology(ies development and
6. other technology(ies) design.

Feel free to email me off-list and I am happy to compile (without mentioning
companies/orgs) responses and share results.

Jennison


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