ATAG 2.0 does not apply to web applications?

Greetings all.

 

I am not sure how I missed this until now, but you are proposing that
ATAG 2.0 only applies to software and not web applications.  Since
probably so much web content is itself generated through internet blogs
and intranet CMS, this seems like a fairly sizeable omission to me!  I
have no doubt this issue has been run to the ground, so I would like to
get up to speed.

 

Is the rational for this decision documented someplace?  I would like to
read up on this before submitted my two bits.


Thanks very much.

 

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