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Comment LC-1220: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Masafumi Nakane <max@wide.ad.jp> on behalf of Keio University; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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The concept of baselines can greatly improve the flexibility of how authors produce Web content. However, this is true only if appropriate and realistic baselines for the community which the content is targeted can be specified without much difficulty. While this may not be an issue in countries where population of assistive technology users is not so small and there are more than a few accessibility experts, this will be an issue in many places where assistive technologies are not widely deployed or advanced. Therefore, WAI (or W3C) should do its best to encourage important, and trusted players in various communities, such as different disability communities in different countries, to help build typical and reasonable baselines. Otherwise, the baseline concept may be misunderstood and misused, and many conforming, but inaccessible content could be produced.; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMA] Discussed in the 19 April 2007 telecon: resolution: Issue 1220, Issue 1246, Issue 1272, Issue 1274, Issue 1314, Issue 1315 (1272 as amended) based on actions. http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/04/19-wai-wcag-minutes.html {accept}; Resolution: The conformance section of WCAG2 has been completely rewritten. The term "baseline" has been replaced by "accessibility-supported Web technologies". The issue of what it means to be an accessibility-supported Web technology is addressed in the section " Accessibility Support of Web Technologies" at http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/#accessibility-support . WAI definitely encourages knowledgeable players in various communities to evaluate user agent and assistive technology support and determine what technologies are accessibility-supported content technologies for their community. Making this information available to authors would be an extremely important step towards accessible content.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)