RE: New requirement for conforming alternate versions

We considered this same situation when addressing the new Authoring Tool 
template requirements in Revised 508. I think some guidance on labelling 
and location is appropriate, and this seems pretty solid.

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From:   "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org>
To:     David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>, "Repsher, Stephen J" 
<stephen.j.repsher@boeing.com>
Cc:     "w3c-wai-gl@w3.org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Date:   2017-08-03 07:28 AM
Subject:        RE: New requirement for conforming alternate versions



On a quick review, it appears well written and carefully specified to me, 
with desirable additions to the existing definition.
 
From: David MacDonald [mailto:david100@sympatico.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 10:21 AM
To: Repsher, Stephen J <stephen.j.repsher@boeing.com>
Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: Re: New requirement for conforming alternate versions
 
I support the addition for WCAG 2.1

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On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Repsher, Stephen J <
stephen.j.repsher@boeing.com> wrote:
Currently, The requirements for a conforming alternate version are laid 
out in the glossary definition.  However, there are two big things missing 
from these requirements in my opinion:
1.       There’s no requirement to actually label a link to a conforming 
alternate as such, and thus how would the user know?
2.       There’s no requirement to tell the user what is altered so they 
can judge whether they need such a version.
 
I filed this a few weeks ago on GitHub and hoping to get some more quick 
feedback: https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/306

 
And here’s the new definition being proposed: 
http://rawgit.com/w3c/wcag21/label-conforming-alternates/guidelines/terms/20/conforming-alternate-version.html

 
Steve Repsher
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