Thoughts on "Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0"

"Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0  to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
2.0"
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/Group/TaskForces/Accessibility/drafts/ED
-mwbp-wcag-20080104/mwbp-wcag20.html

1. Section "Introduction"
The text "It describes how different Mobile Web Best Practices..."
should be changed to "This document describes how different Mobile Web
Best Practices...".

2. General
In the document sometimes references are made to "BPs" and sometimes to
"Mobile Web BPS" (see para 3 under introduction for an example). Is this
intentional, i.e. There is a distinction between the two? If not it may
be worth making all references the same.

3. Section "Introduction"
"By improving usability, all BPs help improve accessibility. This
section describes the specific accessibility benefits and the ways in
which some relate directly to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
2.0."

I'm finding these two sentences tricky to read. Not sure what they are
saying. For example what section is meant by "this section", the
introduction?

3. Section "Introduction"
Second bullet in the list "Does the BP cover any WCAG CPs?" "CPs" is a
new concept here, I think it would be better to say "checkpoints"


4. Section "Extending from MWBP to WCAG 2.0"
In this section there are lists of WCAG 2.9 checkpoints that are linked.
I expected to click on these and get an explanation of the bullets under
the Introduction that explain what is included in the BP explanations 

(i.e.     *  How does it help especially users with disabilities?
(otherwise no_added_benefit)
    * Does the BP cover any WCAG CPs? If so
          o Additional effort required for WCAG compliance
          o How to leverage existing investment in BP.
          o If so, is BP adequate for WCAG?
          o Is BP correct?
          o Synergy/overlap and differences.
          o If you comply with MWBP, why not go a little further and...?
          o If you comply with MWBP, and are aiming for WCAG, you will
have to...
          o How to do both at once.")

I became confused when it clicked through to WCAG 2.0 and not to further
explanation. It may be useful to add a sentence that says "Listed below
are WCAG 2.0 Success Criteria linked through the relevant section on in
the WCAG 2.0 document..." or something.

5. 	Section "Extending from MWBP to WCAG 2.0"
The headings "Nothing", "Something" and "Everything" are all linked to
broken links.

6. Section "How does it help especially users with disabilities?"
The following sentence reads a bit strangely "This paragraph focuses on
the added benefits for their special needs of users with different
disabilities". Also not sure about the reference to "special needs".
Perhaps this could be tweaked along the following lines "This paragraph
focuses on the added benefits for people with disabilities".

Again it is initially confusing as to what "this paragraph" refers to.
I'm wondering if maybe numbers before the H2 headings may help people
orientate. Part of my thinking for this is that there is a huge amount
of content to read through before you get to the actual "Individual
Mobile Web Best Practices Compared" to the extent that the reader may
think that the introductory sections are it.

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