If I could walk that WAI I wouldn't need the guidelines

[j4]

Since the Understanding document ['Understanding WCAG 2.0'] is more than double the size of what it purports to explain, this itself may indicate a problem with WCAG 2.

Is it just me, or is an exposition of something often longer than what it's explaining? Particularly (one might even argue necessarily) when you're translating from technical specifications into more generally-accessible language, i.e. from high to low information density?

Comments

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

I think the person that wrote that article was having a strop because they'd not been listened to.

(I have no idea how well the new guidelines will work, mind - I've not had a chance to look at them properly.)

[j4.livejournal.com]

Me either -- sniping at the snipers is always easier than reading and understanding, let alone doing a better job of it. ;-)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

The current guidelines were fuzzy enough in places, anyway. The new ones seem to be more centred around the user's 'experience', and less around the mechanics underneath the pages. I have no idea whether I'll spend more time, or less, crying over checklists as a result. (And whether they'll give me further ammunition to get the more jarring elements of the site cleaned up, and get a section up for people with learning disabilities, and all the other things I want to do. I suspect not, because we have no time nor money.)