Re: CFC - Response to issue 598: Exit criteria technology-specific?

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu> wrote:

> +1
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> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 12:34 AM, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
> wrote:
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>> Call For Consensus — ends Tuesday January 17th at 1:30am Boston time.
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>> The Working Group has discussed responses to the following issue:
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>> 598: (https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/598)
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>> Response to Issue 598: https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL
>> /wiki/Draft_Responses_to_Dec_WD_Issues#598
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>> The response is: “Thank you for the comment. We intend to include PDF
>> documents in the implementations for review. PDF documents can satisfy the
>> WCAG definition for "web page", which is: "a non-embedded resource obtained
>> from a single URI using HTTP plus any other resources that are used in the
>> rendering or intended to be rendered together with it by a user agent".
>> This is the same reasoning used to include techniques for PDF for WCAG 2.0
>> in the past, and we will be looking to offer PDF techniques for WCAG 2.1
>> Success Criteria as well.”
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>> If you have concerns about this proposed consensus position that have not
>> been discussed already and feel that those concerns result in you “not
>> being able to live with” this decision, please let the group know before
>> the CfC deadline.
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>> Thanks,
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>> AWK
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>> Andrew Kirkpatrick
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>> Group Product Manager, Accessibility
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>> Adobe
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