Be Accessible, Don’t Meet Guidelines
Some time ago, Jack Pickard published a very interesting piece in which he questioned whether too much emphasis was being placed on sites failing 1 or 2 WAI checkpoints.
Having had this article drawn to my attention only recently, I felt he had some very good points to make and that, overall, it is exactly this kind of web accessibility discussion we need. Lip service to any set of binary checkpoints is Bad and, far from undermining the accessibility arguments, playing Devil’s Advocate from time to time can only strengthen - not weaken - the case for all sites to be as accessible as possible.