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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Oct 20, 2014 1:38PM

Not to mention that this complicates the requirements to the umpteenth
degree!

If we want people to create accessible content — that includes web
developers, writers, editors, and designers — then:

1. Make the rules as succinct as possible;
2. Provide one set of rules for everything, rather than WCAG and ARIA and
DAISY and whatever else there is;
3. Make accessibility do-able within a reasonable period of time and effort;
4. Don't make hacks or repurpose a rule to do something else that's
unrelated. (Example, suggestions to use Alt-Text and Actual Text as a
solution.)

And lastly, don't let coders write the rules! <grin, I say that as a former
coder>.
Seriously, have professional writers and editors write the rules,
guidelines, standards, whatever you want to call them. Tech writers are
trained to do this and can translate what's needed to the general masses who
create the content.

These concepts are nothing more than Change Management 101.

—Bevi Chagnon
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