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

[simont]

Business executives are expected to know how technical buzzwords interrelate? I think I'd class any high-level executive who reliably knew things like that among the top 10% for knowledgeability. (Which is not to say it wouldn't be a jolly good thing if the rest did as well.)

[j4.livejournal.com]

I think they are (or at least should be) expected to know what fields the buzzwords pertain to, so that they a) don't make a tit of themselves in front of people who do know what they're talking about, and b) know where to delegate the details.

[FX: hollow laughter from all information professionals]

[jvvw.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of the time when I had quite a length conversation about XML with my father (whose director of an IT consultancy company and isn't technical any longer), followed by him asking me what an iPod was.

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

When I say "inter-relate", I mean in the same way that Arthur Weasley understands how muggle artefacts inter-relate.

[j4.livejournal.com]

*laughs*