slef - 11:00 am on Dec 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

WCAG 2 looks like a farce and a waste of time. Last draft I saw, it's been Web-2.0'd (because of GoogleMail and friends?) and allows sites with javascripts-required, flash and other usability, performance and security hazards to call themselves WCAG-2-accessible. It added nothing to WCAG-1 and is a much more complicated set of guidelines - complicated to the point of being useless in the real world, which is what I guess the "rich web app" providers would want.

The drafting "consultation" was very awkward for ordinary webmasters to participate in, feeling like whistling into the wind. If W3C kill off WCAG 1, then I'm going to have to find new ways to persuade people to make their websites user-friendly.