[Principles] Unreadable, unusable

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From @sharronrush on March 27, 2017 15:18

I don't like this page at all and would completely eliminate it since it embodies all of the problems with readability, "wall of text" and other things that seem to me the formatting issues that make our information too often unusable. However, I know that I am in the minority and so will step aside and accept the decision of the group in the hope that this is addressed in the redesign.

Copied from original issue: w3c/wai-people-use-web#21

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From @nitedog on March 27, 2017 16:15

@sharronrush maybe it is because the expand/collapse functionality is not working on the GitHub version? do you feel the same about the current online version? in any case, i look forward to the redesign too. but what would you suggest in the mean time?

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From @sharronrush on March 27, 2017 19:30

I don't know, I think I have nothing useful to suggest, Shadi, I am very sorry to say. It is just that I cannot imagine a happy use case for this information in its current presentation format.

People who are new to accessibility are likely to become overwhelmed and exhausted when confronted by such a long list of links and then paragraphs of unbroken text explanations that seem to repeat information found elsewhere on the site.

What is the purpose of this page? Someone said it should come first, but I don't think that is the answer either. The note says "This page is illustrative and is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of all accessibility requirements." What is it meant to do? I really just don't understand it.

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From @nitedog on March 28, 2017 9:34

The purpose is to provide a summary of the WAI Guidelines for non-technical audiences.

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From @sharronrush on March 28, 2017 15:18

Then in my opinion it is not very successful since it is lacking brevity
and clarity. I will take a pass at an edit.

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