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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Dec 1, 2015 7:44AM

On 01/12/2015 14:12, Ryan E. Benson wrote:

> If we jump into the WebAIM archives we'd find a thread asking which SC is
> best suited. A good portion of the time it is cut and dry, but there are a
> few that are like "well you can think of it this way, that way, or this
> other way." I remember a few were the thread got to two dozen replies, and
> the person who originally asked was like "....so guys what SC should they
> be dinged with?"

And that, to me, shows the fundamental tension between "making something
accessible" vs "making it pass all of WCAG 2.0's SCs". There's overlap,
but these two goals are not the same. And there's a danger if
legislation purely leans on the latter, rather than the former (as
Leonie mentioned earlier in the thread, many countries use WCAG 2.0 as a
guide/reference, but NOT as a technical standard that simply needs to be
followed/whose checkboxes need to be ticked).

P
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