I'd like to hear specifics on which parts of WCAG Matt believes can or should be thrown out, with principle, guideline and success criteria citations. If we're throwing out all of WCAG, I'd like to hear how you ensure that you're not excluding an entire segment of the world's population that is five times the population of PHP 5.2 users, who are still being included. Finally, I'd like to learn how someone who was claiming that assistive technology fixes websites so accessibility isn't a big deal a mere year ago comes to the conclusion that you can just throw out WCAG, like it's backwards compatibility or something.

I really want to believe that Matt does not intend to exclude people with disabilities, and that he believes that we should be able to participate in and benefit from the democratization of publishing just like anybody else because we're people. But all I have to go on are non-commital statements at best, and I have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to turn those non-commital statements into anything other than "I'm not necessarily opposed to your having a seat at the table, but you'll need to build your own chare and then negotiate with the other people at the table for a spot." I want to believe that the statements Mat has made regarding accessibility are based on a complete lack of information, and that the only reason he's suggesting that WCAG can be thrown out is because he has no knowledge of WCAG and just doesn't realize what that statement implies. But that requires me to go out on an incredibly shaky limb.