[Irl-dean] AAA Claim?

[Eoin Campbell]

The AAA badge is not intended as a site-wide indicator of accessibility;
instead, I believe the recommendation is that you apply it on all pages 
which
meet AAA compliance.
So it is perfectly legitimate, if not desirable practice, to use it 
whereever on the site it is true,
even if other pages are completely inaccessible.

More importantly, on your site accessibility statement, you should 
explain what
parts of the site are generally AAA accessible and what is not.

However, although you can validly make the claim for the pages at the 
time they are
initally launched, how do you know that they will remain compliant in 
the future?
It is very easy for a content maintainer who is not intimately familiar 
with the
WAI guidelines (and even those who are) to add or modify content on the 
page
that breaks the guidelines at any level.

So unless you plan to freeze the site content, or maintain it 
personally, the AAA
claim will probably soon be inaccurate.



Brendan Spillane wrote:
>> What I would like to ask the list is does anyone feel it is acceptable
>> to have and claim AAA accessibility for the rest of the website but to
>> have an archive page which is only AA accessible containing these
>> documents? 
>>     


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