Re: Rough draft of some success criteria for a extension guideline "Touch accessible"

Apologies for joining the party late and asking what is probably an 
obvious question, but just wanted to point out that "touch" is not 
strictly a "mobile" issue. There are already many devices (2-in-1 
tablet/laptops, desktop machines with external touch-capable monitors, 
etc) beyond the mobile space which include touch interaction. So, a 
fundamental question for me would be: would these extensions be 
signposted/labelled as being "mobile-specific", or will they be added to 
WCAG 2 core in a more general, device-agnostic manner?

Further, though I welcome the addition of SCs relating to touch target 
size and clearance, I'm wondering why we would not also have the 
equivalent for mouse or stylus interfaces...again, in short, why make it 
touch-specific, when in general the SCs should apply to all "pointers" 
("mouse cursor, pen, touch (including multi-touch), or other pointing 
input device", to borrow some wording from the Pointer Events spec 
http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/)?

Perhaps more of an aside (apologies if this is the wrong forum to raise 
this): if I understand the idea of extensions correctly, the core WCAG 2 
SCs will remain unaffected. So does this mean that the keyboard-specific 
SCs will still be in effect, even though some devices may simply not 
have a keyboard? This feels like an imbalance...I'd rather see the core 
language made more input-agnostic in core WCAG 2 (e.g. replacing 
explicit mentions of "Keyboard" with something more open-ended, like 
"non-pointer interface" (see some of my musings from a while ago 
https://twitter.com/patrick_h_lauke/status/602414144583761920)

P
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