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Comment LC-2693: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Alex Li <alli@microsoft.com> on behalf of Microsoft; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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A note is needed in success criteria 3.3.4 to exclude financial transactions as an unintended byproduct
An SMS message may cause a cost to a recipient without an unlimited SMS message plan. This is likewise the case of any pay per megabyte type network data agreement. An email may in certain scenarios trigger a legal commitment or financial transaction. It is obviously not possible for an email agent to detect the present of legal commitment or financial transaction that may take place within an email. An exception or note is necessary to exclude scenarios where the user may trigger a financial transaction as a result of prior legal or financial commitment. Optimally, we would like to see a normative exception that suggests that a refresh of WCAG 2.0 is necessary.; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes:; Proposed Resolution: You are suggesting a normative change which the task force is not allowed to do. WCAG 2.0 is a released standard and we are not empowered to change WCAG. Barring a change to WCAG, we are not able to create different success criteria for ICT. Per our work statement, we can only provide guidance on applying WCAG 2.0 to non-web ICT. As to a note- notes are informative only and cannot extend or limit the coverage of a success criterion. As to your specific example, the issue you raise is not constrained to ICT but would apply (or not apply) equally to web content. As such, we suggest that you submit your comment to the WCAG WG so that it can be handled there - where it would apply if needed to both web and non-web content.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)