Your comments on WCAG 2.0 Public Working Draft of May, 2007

Dear Gregg Vanderheiden,

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
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Please see below for the text of comments that you submitted and our
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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

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Comment 1: Clarify wording of SC 2.4.4
Source: http:/http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0173.html
(Issue ID: 2020)
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Original Comment:
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Some people were confused by 2.4.4 thinking it meant you needed to be
able to determine purpose from the link text and also from the
context.

Proposed Change:
add  "taken together" at end to it reads

2.4.4 Link Purpose (Context): The purpose of each link can be
determined from the link text and its programmatically determined link
context taken together.

or

2.4.4 Link Purpose (Context): The purpose of each link can be
determined from the link text together wih its programmatically
determined link context.

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Response from Working Group:
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We have changed SC 2.4.4 to read "2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context):
The purpose of each link can be determined from the link text alone,
or from the link text together with its programmatically determined
link context, except where the purpose of the link would be ambiguous
to users in general."

Received on Sunday, 4 November 2007 04:31:26 UTC