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From: Chagnon | PubCom.com
Date: Nov 19, 2015 12:12PM

Paul Adam wrote:
"WCAG indeed has many loopholes."

In a way, yes, you're right about that.
To me, WCAG is one of the most poorly written, organized, and presented set of regulations/standards/guidelines I've ever had to deal with. That's my opinion based on 30+ years of professional editing and publishing of US Federal regulations, legislation, and standards.

To any of us in the professional communications and publishing industries, it's very clear to us that W3C/WAI needs to hire some professional writers and editors to put this information in a better state -- less redundancy, less confusion, clearer language and better understanding.

Part of accessibility is the use of plain language, a movement started decades ago by governments worldwide to make our content more understandable to a diverse population.

As it is now, WCAG is the antithesis of plain language.

No matter how well-intentioned all the creators of WCAG are, when it comes time for accessibility lawsuits and formal complaints, this type of poorly-written gibberish will undermine our cases and only serve to line the pockets of lawyers who could easily argue to dismiss the accessibility case.

This confusion also spawns so much of our email posts on this list.

WAI, please use plain language.

And hire professional writers and editors to overhaul the language and presentation of WCAG -- not necessarily the standards themselves, but their presentation.

--Bevi Chagnon