Comments on: WCAG 2.0 Release Candidate Part 3 of 5: Level AA http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200805/wcag-20-release-candidate-part-3-of-5-level-aa/ ranting and rambling to anyone willing to listen Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:51:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Seb http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200805/wcag-20-release-candidate-part-3-of-5-level-aa/comment-page-1/#comment-31656 Seb Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:12:53 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/?p=600#comment-31656 I'm disappointed that the contrast and text are not in level A, they really don't take much effort to achieve (on a website at least). I've never been keen on partial/split site conformance and I think the increasing use of video (attracts the eyeballs don't-ya-know) will be a real barrier to the widespread attainment of this level. My (non-legal-based) judgement of the DDA measure of reasonableness would also fall short of the audio-description on all video and hence as it's a complete package it would be argued that the level as a whole would be deemed as such. So, while I have always argued that WCAG1.0AA was reasonably easy to achieve and therefore was the defacto minimum, I don't think this applies to WCAG2.0AA. Therefore I believe this will result in most self-selecting level A and not bother with any of the other criteria at this level; and therefore I'm even more annoyed about the bits that I believe should be in level A. I’m disappointed that the contrast and text are not in level A, they really don’t take much effort to achieve (on a website at least). I’ve never been keen on partial/split site conformance and I think the increasing use of video (attracts the eyeballs don’t-ya-know) will be a real barrier to the widespread attainment of this level.

My (non-legal-based) judgement of the DDA measure of reasonableness would also fall short of the audio-description on all video and hence as it’s a complete package it would be argued that the level as a whole would be deemed as such. So, while I have always argued that WCAG1.0AA was reasonably easy to achieve and therefore was the defacto minimum, I don’t think this applies to WCAG2.0AA.

Therefore I believe this will result in most self-selecting level A and not bother with any of the other criteria at this level; and therefore I’m even more annoyed about the bits that I believe should be in level A.

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