Best Practices Or Today's Practices?

Does/should WAI:

• Act as an evangelist for emerging W3C technologies?
• Assume that the W3C philosophy is true ("by following these guidelines content developers can create pages that degrade gracefully …")
• Address real world concerns in an environment of broken browsers, commercially driven interests, proprietary formats, …

XML

CSS SMIL SVG RDF

G6 Ensure that pages are accessible even when newer technologies .. not supported

If I use SMIL, how do I dumb things down to HTML?

Typical Problems

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