[Irl-dean] The long war

[Joshue O Connor]

Hi Ross,

> Did someone mention before that WCAG conformance should be independently
> verified... Is that an ideal or what is truly required by WCAG conformance?

It would be better if conformance is assessed by a third party and is
not a SDOC.

> As there is a trust issue perhaps stating that suppliers are liable for not
> implementing any standards they are reasonably expected to meet? E.g. is
> Accessibility Testing comes back and says you didn't implement ALT tags - go
> do it!

You should look at the NDA public procurement toolkit when it comes out
(which is soon). Mark can give you more details.

> How could you enshrine usability? If something has poor usability it tends
> to be inaccessible - but things like 'cognitive load' are much more
> subjective than poor markup...? Universal design 'principles' are great but
> what of universal design 'standards' - does such a thing exist?

Good design facilitates and enables good usability and even
accessibility as a natural by product of high quality design and
development processes (whew!)

Josh (fellow idealist)




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