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Comment LC-592: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Martin Stehle <pewtah@snafu.de>; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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The technical notes are not wrong, but misleading. One can get the impression that sign language videos are only necessary if there are captions in videos. This does not meet the reality.

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Please delete this notes.; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMA] Captions are required for all multimedia at level 2, (1.2.4 Captions are provided for live multimedia. ) So in our document, by the time someone is looking at sign language for multimedia at level 3, Captions would be required so it is appropriate for us to mention Captions in all of the benefits because captions will be present in any multi media being considered at level 3. If we want to add note saying "Sign language videos are sometimes necessary even if captions are not present" but I think it would confuse people. 08 June 2006 resolution: adopt LC-592 resolution as amended. http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2006/06/08-wai-wcag-minutes.html Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0056.html; Resolution: Captions are required for all multimedia at level AA (1.2.1 Captions are provided for prerecorded multimedia., 1.2.4 Captions are provided for live multimedia. ) It is helpful to discuss why signed language interpretation is needed even though captions are already available in any multimedia being considered at level AAA.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)