Editing Web accessibility (section)

====Criticism of WAI guidelines====
There has been some criticism of the W3C process, claiming that it does not sufficiently put the user at the heart of the process.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Jonathan Chetwynd|title=Putting the User at the Heart of the W3C Process|url=http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Putting_the_User_at_the_Heart_of_the_W3C_Process|publisher=JISC CETIS|access-date=15 January 2015|date=24 July 2007|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010732/http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Putting_the_User_at_the_Heart_of_the_W3C_Process|url-status=dead}}</ref> There was a formal objection to WCAG's original claim that WCAG 2.0 will address requirements for people with learning disabilities and cognitive limitations headed by [[Lisa Seeman]] and signed by 40 organizations and people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2006AprJun/0368.html |title=Formal Objection to WCAG 2.0 |date=20 June 2006 |author=Lisa Seeman |publisher=W3C Public Mailing List Archives |access-date=16 December 2012 |archive-date=22 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122080959/http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2006AprJun/0368.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In articles such as "WCAG 2.0: The new W3C guidelines evaluated",<ref>{{cite web |author=Trenton Moss says |url=http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-accessibility/wcag-guidelines-20.shtml |title=WCAG 2.0: The new W3C accessibility guidelines evaluated |publisher=Webcredible.co.uk |access-date=28 July 2013 |archive-date=2 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702005746/http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-accessibility/wcag-guidelines-20.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> "To Hell with WCAG 2.0"<ref>{{cite web |author=Joe Clark |url=http://alistapart.com/articles/tohellwithwcag2 |title=To Hell with WCAG 2 · An A List Apart Article |publisher=Alistapart.com |date=11 July 2013 |access-date=28 July 2013 |archive-date=2 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302100230/http://www.alistapart.com/articles/tohellwithwcag2 |url-status=live }}</ref> and "Testability Costs Too Much",<ref>{{cite web |author=Gian Sampson-Wild |url=http://alistapart.com/articles/testability |title=Testability Costs Too Much · An A List Apart Article |publisher=Alistapart.com |date=11 July 2013 |access-date=28 July 2013 |archive-date=7 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807001727/http://www.alistapart.com/articles/testability |url-status=live }}</ref> the WAI has been criticised for allowing WCAG 1.0 to get increasingly out of step with today's technologies and techniques for creating and consuming web content, for the slow pace of development of WCAG 2.0, for making the new guidelines difficult to navigate and understand, and other argued failings.