[Irl-dean] AAA Claim?

[Barry McMullin]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, brendan spillane wrote:

> One of our clients has a website which currently reaches AA of the
> WCAG 1.0 Guidelines.
>
> They would like to make their website AAA accessible and in the most
> part there is no problem doing this, the single biggest cost being the
> conversion of .PDF and .DOC to accessible xhtml.

Hi Guys -

As others have commented, it is great that an organisation is
even taking this seriously enough to consider what is really
practical and possible - so that's a big win already, and kudos
to Brendan and all involved for getting this far.

That said, I'm a bit confused. Brendan seems to be saying that
resources available only in PDF and DOC would qualify as meeting
WCAG 1.0 Double-A, but not Triple-A.  Whereas I would have thought
these resources straightforwardly violate Checkpoint 11.1 ("Use
W3C technologies when they are available and appropriate for a
task and use the latest versions when supported. [Priority 2]");
which means that while they *might* conform to WCAG Single-A, they
surely cannot meet Double-A.

I know that 11.1 is controversial (to say the least); but given
that the discussion is cast in terms of WCAG 1.0 conformance, I
don't think we can just pick and choose which checkpoints to
apply...

Am I missing something?

(I'll comment separately about the "scoping" question, but wanted
to address the appropriate conformance *level* first...)

Best - Barry.