Your comments on WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft of December, 2007

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
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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: 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
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Original Comment:
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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.

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Response from Working Group:
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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.

Received on Tuesday, 11 March 2008 00:19:14 UTC