The Samurai Errata have no official status so there are no certificates or validators. They have "authority tone" because that's Joe Clark's style, not because they have any authority. They are some good ideas written by some clever people (or one clever person if you believe some of the theories).
I suspect they are hoping that the W3C adopt the Errata, which would be a good thing in my opinion. If they do not, I suspect the Errata will have about zero uptake in the commercial world. It's hard enough to explain the need for accessibility without explaining that you're going to ignore the only globally accepted set of guidelines in favour of an unofficial set written by a self-appointed group of people, all but one of whom are unknown. I have submitted my comments to the Samurai, and they can be seen at http://www.accessibility.co.uk/wcag_samurai_errata.htm The process for commenting is a bit shambolic, and it is not clear that comments are particularly welcome. There is no stated process, so people have been commenting in various places in the blogs of the two peer reviewers so they are very fragmented. Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tee G.Peng Sent: 11 June 2007 07:12 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] WCAG Samurai Errata On Jun 7, 2007, at 10:22 PM, Kane Tapping wrote: > > I have been reading with interest the WCAG Samurai Errata ( http:// > wcagsamurai.org/errata/intro.html ) and am suprised to have not found > it discussed on WSG as of yet. > Hi, I finally got a chance to read the WCAG Samurai Errata. Maybe something to do with my understanding in English, I see there is autority tone in there. Overall impression is it's a good thing, it seems the standard is higher (maybe it was because I am always so confused with the WCAG ambiguous used of language thus never able to fully understand) in claiming an accessible site. Curious, is there an entity to issue certificate or safegaurd what sites can really claim to be WCAG Samurai Errata compliance? Will the validators be update to cater for Samurai Errata? Or just our judegement with human eyes and best parctise be the call? Lastly, I did not aware we can do this ? Did a brief reading in CSS 3 spec and I tried testing it in Safari, Firefox and Opera (thought one of the browsers has already supported some of CSS3 elements) but none of them work. " If images must be used for list bullets, do so only using CSS, as with ul { list-style: url("arrow.gif") disc }" tee ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
