- From: Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 19:19:49 -0700
- To: Tim <dogstar27@optushome.com.au>
- Cc: public-comments-WCAG20@w3.org
Dear Tim Andersen, Thank you for your comments on the 17 May 2007 Public Working Draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/). The WCAG Working Group has reviewed all comments received on the May draft, and will be publishing an updated Public Working Draft shortly. Before we do that, we would like to know whether we have understood your comments correctly, and also whether you are satisfied with our resolutions. Please review our resolutions for the following comments, and reply to us by 19 November 2007 at public-comments-wcag20@w3.org to say whether you are satisfied. Note that this list is publicly archived. Note also that we are not asking for new issues, nor for an updated review of the entire document at this time. Please see below for the text of comments that you submitted and our resolutions to your comments. Each comment includes a link to the archived copy of your original comment on http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/, and may also include links to the relevant changes in the WCAG 2.0 Editor's Draft of May-October 2007 at http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-20071102/ Thank you for your time reviewing and sending comments. Though we cannot always do exactly what each commenter requests, all of the comments are valuable to the development of WCAG 2.0. Regards, 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- Comment 1: asking the entire web to become authors for those who do not comprehend English Source: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007May/0132.html (Issue ID: 1933) ---------------------------- Original Comment: ---------------------------- I write webpages for University students and others at at a high language level, where I use foreign language terms, there are links to a glossary of word definitions, but I cannot reproduce the entire site which currently passes Priority Three into simple language for a secondary school child. How can any complex subject or University level website comply with this demand to bring down the English language to the level of secondary school student. You are asking the entire web to become authors for those who do not comprehend English, this is the lowest standard bringing down academic values in an effort to enforce mediocrity. 3.1.5 Reading Level: When text requires reading ability more advanced than the lower secondary education level, supplemental content or an alternate version is available that does not require reading ability more advanced than the lower secondary education level. (Level AAA)Understanding Success --------------------------------------------- Response from Working Group: --------------------------------------------- We agree that providing alternate versions at a lower reading level cannot reasonably be done on all Web pages. That's why this provision is at Level AAA. Because of the tighter limits that Level AAA places on both presentation and content, it may not be possible to satisfy this level of conformance for all types of content. (See the description of the three levels of conformance at http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/#overview-levels). However, rewriting the Web page at a lower reading level is only one of the ways to satisfy this success criterion. (See Understanding Success Criterion 3.1.5 at http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/Overview.html#meaning-supplements.) There are a variety of forms of supplemental content that could be provided, such as a simplified summary, visual illustrations of the complex ideas in the content, or a spoken version of the text on the page. Such supplements will make complex subjects easier to understand for people with certain disabilities.
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