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Comment LC-2694: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Alex Li <alli@microsoft.com> on behalf of Microsoft; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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Error notification may be an appropriate exception for 3.2.2
In order to fulfill success criteria 3.3.1 and 3.3.3, it may well be best practice to notify the user immediately upon the occurrence of input error. Such error notification may trigger a change of context. But it may not be optimal to provide prior instruction to users for such error notification. We advise that an exception or note to be added to support this best practice scenario. We understand that normative change may be necessary to accommodate the proposed best practice.; 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)