Re: why "consumers"?

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> Name: Makoto Ueki
> Email: makoto.ueki@gmail.com
> Affiliation: JIS Working Group
> Document: W2
> Item Number: Conformance Claims
> Part of Item:
> Comment Type: editorial
> Summary of Issue: why "consumers"?
> Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change):
> In "Optional components of a conformance claim" section, it reads "This information should be provided in a form that consumers can use, preferably machine-readable metadata." Who is "consumers"? Does it mean "end users of the web site/web appication"? If so, why "consumers" instead of "users"?
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> Proposed Change:
> Need explanation.
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Response from the Working Group
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Good catch. We should be consistent. We only user 'consumers' in the
one location in the document. We will change it to 'This information
should be provided to users in a usable form, preferably
machine-readable metadata' in the next draft.

Loretta Guarino Reid, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Gregg Vanderheiden, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Michael Cooper, WCAG WG Staff Contact


On behalf of the WCAG Working Group