- From: Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:19:00 -0700
- To: "Dey Alexander" <dey@deyalexander.com.au>
- Cc: public-comments-WCAG20@w3.org
Dear Dey Alexander, Thank you for your comments on the 11 Dec 2007 Last Call Working Draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20071211). The WCAG Working Group has reviewed all comments received on the December draft. Before we proceed to implementation, we would like to know whether we have understood your comments correctly and whether you are satisfied with our resolutions. Please review our resolutions for the following comments, and reply to us by 31 March 2008 at public-comments-wcag20@w3.org to say whether you accept them or to discuss additional concerns you have with our response. Note that this list is publicly archived. 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 10 March 2008 at http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-20080310/. Note that if you still strongly disagree with our resolution on an issue, you have the opportunity to file a formal objection (according to 3.3.2 of the W3C Process, at http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies.html#WGArchiveMinorityViews) to public-comments-wcag20@w3.org. Formal objections will be reviewed during the candidate recommendation transition meeting with the W3C Director, unless we can come to agreement with you on a resolution in advance of the meeting. 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: Concern about providing an alt version of readable content Source: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2008Jan/0033.html (Issue ID: 2411) Status: VERIFIED / NOT ACCEPTED ---------------------------- Original Comment: ---------------------------- I'm concerned at the suggestion that an alternative version be provided for content that is not written at the proposed level (lower secondary). This looks like an opportunity for the same problem to arise that occurred with text-only versions of inaccessible pages. Proposed Change: Remove. --------------------------------------------- Response from Working Group: --------------------------------------------- For many types of content, writing them at a lower secondary level would cause a loss of some information. As a result, it is not always possible to write the primary content at the lower secondary level. So, the provision allows for either the primary or alternative content to be written at that level.
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