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Re: AAA level

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Feb 4, 2019 7:35AM

Among the many hundreds of WebAIM clients over the last decade or so,
I don't recall a single one that became fully AAA conformant. While we
recommend and have helped many incorporate important and relevant
aspects of AAA, most of these have sites simply could not be made AAA
conformant due to their nature, or would be worse off for it. I
suspect that some very basic sites could be made conformant with
notable effort, but we don't consult on these types of sites. I know
that in the approval processes for both 2.0 and 2.1 the W3C working
group had difficulty finding examples of AAA conformant sites in the
wild.

As stated directly in WCAG: "It is not recommended that Level AAA
conformance be required as a general policy for entire sites because
it is not possible to satisfy all Level AAA Success Criteria for some
content."

Jared