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Date: Jan 12, 2022 2:50AM

Hello,

WCAG 2.1 allows conforming alternate versions. There is a website :
_https://www.kmmk.hu/ <https://www.kmmk.hu/>_, which has a accessible
clone: _https://am.kmmk.hu/ <https://am.kmmk.hu/>_.

I wonder if this is allowed in WCAG 2.1? The main website has links are
presented the same as text in all pages. But the first item is an
accessible button, which leads to the accessible clone, where links are
underlined and there are other accessibility

Some of my testers, which permanently us AT says that this perfect for
them. They use the conforming alternate version all the time.

But there are testers, who are not using AT, and they hardly find the
links, and others are see the low-contrast letters on the main website.
They don't go to the accessible version, because they never use it and
they don't think that this is usable for them.

And all testers has a little bit of annoying, that  accessible clone is 
are the same than the original.

I studied WCAG: conforming alternate version
<https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#dfn-conforming-alternate-version>, and
also found SCR38 Creating a conforming alternate version for a web page
designed with progressive enhancement
<https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/SCR38.html>
_<https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/SCR38.html>_but this is not the case.

What do you think, this solution is conforming WCAG 2.1? (Let's suppose
that the accissible clone is WCAG-conform)



I would very appreciate your thoughts.

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