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Comment LC-1281: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Andrew Arch <andrew.arch@visionaustralia.org> on behalf of Vision Australia; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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Comment: "If text alternatives cannot serve the same purpose, then text alternatives at least identify the purpose of the non-text content." Surely in this case the content has failed SC 1.1.1?

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leave the second sentence out!; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMC] [] We do have a problem with the way this SC is worded. It says "If non-text content presents information or responds to user input, text alternatives serve the same purpose and present the same information as the non-text content. If text alternatives cannot serve the same purpose, then text alternatives at least identify the purpose of the non-text content." In the first sentence we say text alternatives "serve the same purpose" as the non-text content. But then in the second sentence, we say if text alternatives "cannot serve the same purpose". So in a sense, we are defining text alternatives in the first sentence. If they are defined as something that serves the same purpose, then text that cannot serve the same purpose is not, by definition, a "text alternative". Discussed in the 16 November 2006 telecon: RESOLUTION: accept LC-1281 as ammended http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2006/11/16-wai-wcag-minutes.html {accept} DONE Reword based on 09 November Resolution, changing "same information" to "equivalent information" Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0047.html; Resolution: Thank you for pointing out this issue with the wording of the first bullet in SC 1.1.1. The intent of the second sentence, as explained in the How to Meet SC 1.1.1 document, is to cover cases such as a test where a particular sense must be used or where content is designed to create a specific sensory experience. We have modified the success criteria to clarify this.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)