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Comment LC-2701: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Ken Salaets <ksalaets@itic.org> on behalf of Information Technology Industry Council; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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“Interpreting” is a better term than “applying” for this work

The introductory text and the proposed draft clearly indicate that much of the normative text in WCAG 2.0 cannot be used for non-web ICT context without significant text replacement. The title “Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies” is misleading given the substantial changes necessary for any attempt to apply WCAG 2.0 to non-web ICT. In fact, the first sentence of the introductory text used the term interpretation and application instead. We urge that the title of the document be changed to “Interpreting and applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies” to prevent the audience from being misled into believing that WCAG 2.0 can be applied in its current form to non-web ICT.; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes:; Proposed Resolution: We agree that some web specific terms like "Web Page" and "Web Content" have to be interpreted to find their counterpart in the broader scope of non-web content and software. We have also asked the WCAG WG to expand their INTENT section in Understanding WCAG 2.0 to better explain certain aspects of the intent of specific success criterion. However there have been relatively few other edits required and most of the success criteria seem to apply pretty well as they were written. We have changed the title to "Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies" and hope that this new title addresses your concern.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)