WCAG 2.0: clear as mud?
Joe Clark reports that WCAG 2.0, the product of five years’ hard labour by the WAI is a poor effort.
The new raft of guidelines, set to become a standard shortly, closes none of the loopholes afforded by its predecessors whilst maintaining the infuriating trend of being unintelligible to most of its audience.
Whilst much of the same ground is trodden again in respect of the basics, major improvements are unclear or self-contradictory.
“As a working standards-compliant developer [you] are going to find it next to impossible to implement WCAG 2″ says Clark, adding that even if you follow the guidelines, you may not end up with an accessible site.
