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From: Laura Carlson
Date: Aug 24, 2015 6:34AM

Hi Leonie and all,

Thank you for your reply.

My take is that WCAG 2.0 is going the extension route to make WCAG
*more* accessible for people with disabilities. Those who care, will
do the right thing and require extensions and that includes legal
entities. I suspect that legal entities who have been and are
currently referencing WCAG 2.0 (examples:[1]) will likely to continue
to do so by requiring WCAG 2.0 +extensions. Their action is welcome.
The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the U.S.
Department of Justice (DOJ) have shown by actions that organizations
and companies with access barriers on websites and in learning
materials run afoul of the law.

Those who don't take accessibility seriously won't care, extensions or not.

Again, please consider joining the Low Vision Task Force.

Kindest regards,
Laura

[1] http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/wcagwg/settlements/
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Laura L. Carlson