Blog » The Samurai
- Posted: Jun 8th 2007, 14:41
Many years ago, when I was a right-wing-validationist standing alongside the puritan/conservative XHTML police, I may have made silly remarks that disagreed with this man but I consider myself to be a pensive and considerate man now and I believe this dude thinks the way I’d like to think.
He displays an unadulterated pure perception of common sense when it comes to accessibility (an -ism that I hold strongly to every day of my life) and bears an impenetrable shield against the fools who can’t tell when they have gone either too far or not far enough.
Joe Clark’s WCAG Samurai is an effort, somewhat similar in intent to the WHATWG Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, that hopes to bring some sanity to the WCAG 1.0. It also discusses elements of the modern Web, something that the WAI failed to bring into their WCAG 2.0 correctly; it looks at podcasting, videos, and brings into the fold the idea that many web technologies have already begun introducing their own accessible features (Flash) and it really makes the WCAG 2.0 specs look amateurish. Shocking.
I’ve taken a good slow read through the Errata for WCAG 1.0 on WCAG Samurai and I’ve decided it’s pure brilliance.