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Re: New blog post: To Hell with Compliance

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From: Lynn Holdsworth
Date: Jan 6, 2015 11:29AM

Hi Karl,

For a moment there I thought that was a Joe Clark blog post you were linking to!

Nice article. I wanted to comment on your site but couldn't work out how.

I agree with you in the main, except that WCAG2 is a useful tool that
devs and designers not au fait with AT idiosyncrasies, cognitive load,
colour blindness and all the rest of it can use to measure how their
accessibility is coming along. Not having some sort of framework
leaves people no other option but to make it up as they go along.
WCAG2 may be far from perfect, but I'm glad we've got at least
something.

I agree that compliance is often a far cry from accessibility. But
I've worked with several devs who've started out wanting to do the
bare minimum and then got passionate about accessibility.

Standards aren't everything, but I'd say they're an intrinsic part of
the jigsaw.

Cheers, Lynn

On 06/01/2015, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> nice job i like your examples.
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Karl Groves < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> http://www.karlgroves.com/2015/01/06/to-hell-with-compliance/
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>> Karl Groves
>> www.karlgroves.com
>> @karlgroves
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/karlgroves
>> Phone: +1 410.541.6829
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>> Modern Web Toolsets and Accessibility
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uq6Db47-Ks
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>> www.tenon.io
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> Lucia Greco
> Web Accessibility Evangelist
> IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
> University of California, Berkeley
> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
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