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Comment LC-1406: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> on behalf of DocArch, K.U.Leuven; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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Comment (including rationale for proposed change):

I have been working on a Dutch translation of the guidelines and noticed that \"legal transactions\" is hard to translate into Dutch in a way that rings a bell with readers; I translated it as if it meant \"transactions recognized by the law\".
Other translators may also have this problem because \"legal transactions\" in the SC text is not clarified in the intent of HtM 2.5.3. If it means \"transactions where the person incurs a legally binding obligation or benefit (a marriage license, a stock trade (financial and legal), a will, a loan, adoption, signing up for the army, a contract of any type, etc), please clarify this.

Proposed Change:

Add the following to the intent of HtM 2.5.3: \"Legal transactions are transactions where someone incurs a legally binding obligation or benefit, for example a marriage license, a stock trade (financial and legal), a will, a loan, adoption, signing up for the army, a contract of any type, etcetera.\"; Related issues: 1471
(space separated ids); WG Notes: [EDITORZ] Discussed in the 22 February 2007 telecon: Accepted by unanimous consent. http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/02/22-wai-wcag-minutes.html {accept} Note: this appears to be a duplicate of LC-1471, which has already been closed. (BBC: They were similar, but not quite identical so I did not remove this one as a duplicate) Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0007.html; Resolution: We have revised the success criterion (now SC 3.3.3) to read, "For forms that cause legal commitments or financial transactions to occur, that modify or delete user-controllable data in data storage systems, or that submit test responses, at least one of the following is true..." We have also added a definition for legal commitments.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)