Re: Editorial changes to Requirements for WCAG 2.0

done.
--w

At 04:38 PM 4/26/02, Judy Brewer wrote:
>At 11:35 AM 4/26/2002 -0400, Wendy A Chisholm wrote:
>>Here is the detailed list of editorial changes.  The doc is available from:
>>http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wcag20-requirements
>>
>><...>
>>
>>1. Added an abstract. It says:
>>This document lists the requirements for the Web Content Accessibility 
>>Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0).  Appendix A lists a set of statements that the 
>>Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) has agreed 
>>to while writing WCAG 2.0.  These statements will help frame future decisions.
>
>This is ambiguous. It sounds like it is a documentation of requirements 
>that were incorporated into a completed document, not the requirements for 
>something that you are building, which is the case here. It sounds as 
>though the statements in the requirements document might be applied to 
>something in the future beyond WCAG 2.0, rather than to decisions on 
>Working Drafts of WCAG 2.0 as it evolves. Moreover, it does not emphasize 
>the fact that feedback on the Requirements document is welcomed, which is 
>a particularly important role of the abstract of a Requirements document.
>
>In terms of resolving these ambiguities, actually you've got the ideal 
>text already in place under the "Status" section, at paragraph 2:
>
>"This is a W3C Working Draft produced by the Web Content Accessibility 
>Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG). The purpose of this document is to 
>outline the requirements for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. The 
>Working Group encourages feedback about these requirements as well as 
>participation in the development of the revision by people who have 
>experience trying to create Web content that conforms to WCAG 1.0."
>
>Since it appears that the status section would work fine without that 
>paragraph, and since that paragraph accomplishes everything that's needed 
>in an abstract, and the WCAG WG has already presumably approved that 
>language, I'd recommend moving the 2nd paragraph of the Status section up 
>as a replacement for the abstract that was recently added.
>
>- Judy
>
>
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wendy a chisholm
world wide web consortium
web accessibility initiative
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