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From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Nov 30, 2015 8:19AM

Julie, it would have to be hosted by an entity that nations, their courts, and corporations would recognize as being authoritative. Otherwise, it's just some group's notion of best practices—not a resource for ensuring compliance with laws or conformance to standards.

So who hosts it is far more important than how it's hosted.

Cliff Tyllick

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> On Nov 30, 2015, at 9:07 AM, Julie Lewis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Is there any reason the accessibility community can¹t use github for this?
> We could even maintain a plain language version of the WCAG
> recommendations there. ;^)
>
>>
>> 2. The accessibility community should build and maintain an
>> application any Web professional can use to discover known
>> techniques for producing usable and accessible interactions in
>> the presentation technology they are using. The same application
>> would allow developers to submit new techniques they have used to
>> solve a previously unsolved problem or to improve upon an
>> existing solution. Each technique submitted should be specific;
>> include appropriate examples of its implementation; be tagged
>> according to the interface or interaction (form, text input,
>> error checking, labels for fieldsets, navigation menus, and so
>> on), the presentation technology (HTML, PDF, XHTML, Word for
>> Windows, Open Office, Drupal, WordPress, Plone, Bootstrap.js, and
>> so on), the presentation environments in which it works (video,
>> audio, wearables, smart phones, large monitors, haptic
>> interfaces, and others), the disability addressed, the relevant
>> WCAG success criteria, and other relevant features if I've missed
>> any; and be linked to closely related solutions, relevant
>> tutorials, explanations of the underlying principles, and the
>> like.
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