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Re: Conforming alternate version

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From: glen walker
Date: Jan 12, 2022 8:44AM

The "Conforming Alternate Version" is spelled out pretty well at the link
you mentioned:

https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#dfn-conforming-alternate-version

In this case, it looks like non-conforming version (the main website?) has
a link to the conforming version via the image link (the first link on the
page) that looks like a yellow circle with three embedded black circles.
The image has appropriate alt text leading the user to the "barrier free"
version.

However, both the link and the image are tab stops. The link does not have
a focus indicator but the image does, so technically the link would fail
the "accessibility-supported mechanism" requirement in #4.1 because it
doesn't have a focus indicator. But that's easy to fix. There's no need
to have tabindex=0 on the image since it's contained in the link and if the
focus indicator is fixed, it would satisfy a "conforming alternate version"
(assuming the website it's linked to is actually conforming and provides
all the same information as the original site and is kept up to date).

Personally, I think it's a lot more work to maintain two websites and make
sure they stay in sync when changes are made rather than the work required
to make the original website conformant.