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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Dec 1, 2015 8:42AM

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote
> And that, to me, shows the fundamental tension between "making something
accessible" vs "making it pass all of WCAG 2.0's SCs".

Then you can always throw the nothing can then be made fully accessible
because there will always be an unique case. The common rebuttal is well we
will ensure that major cases will be covered and have a plan in place for
edge cases. Ok then this directly contradicts the "no checkboxes!" mantra.
The checkboxes here are types of disabilities, not technical standards.

This is the same argument in security, the most secure system is the system
that isn't built.

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Ryan E. Benson

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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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