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Comment LC-1016: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org> on behalf of W3C/WAI, on behalf of the Education and Outreach Working Group; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

or; Refinement of the section concerned:; Status:
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Commenter's response (URI):; Comment:
Part of Item: Intent
Comment Type: editorial
Comment (including rationale for proposed change):

reposting the comment at:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2006Jun/0225.html
due to incorrect paste of comment.

(Helpful detail in \"Understanding WCAG 2.0.\" EOWG sends its compliments)

Unclear purpose of document.

Proposed Change:

The Introduction needs an opening statement along the lines of \"this is not an introductory document - it is a detailed description of the guidelines and their success criteria\" and adds a pointer to the \"Overview\"
document for people requiring a simple introduction.; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [EDITORZ] [HOLD] BBC: Removed LC-1015 (referenced at beginning of comments) Discussed in the 18 January 2007 telecon: Accepted by unanimous consent. http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/01/18-wai-wcag-minutes.html {accept} DONE Add a third paragraph of introduction (before "WCAG 2.0 covers..") This is not an introductory document. It is a detailed technical description of the guidelines and their success criteria. For an introduction to WCAG 2.0 and the complete set of documents associated with the guidelines, see "Overview of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Documents" Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0405.html; Resolution: Thank you. We have added the following paragraph to the Introduction. WCAG 2.0 itself is a technical standard designed primarily for Web developers and designers, authoring tool developers, evaluation tool developers, and others who need a technical standard for Web accessibility. Due to the technical and technology-independent nature of the guidelines and success criteria, and because they say what needs to be done rather than how to do it, it may sometimes be difficult to use the guidelines or success criteria for specific advice for a particular technology (e.g. HTML, XHTML, JavaScript etc)."; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)