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Results of Questionnaire WCAG2ICT - Review of Background section's readiness to incorporate into editors draft

The results of this questionnaire are available to anybody. In addition, answers are sent to the following email address: maryjom@us.ibm.com

This questionnaire was open from 2023-01-19 to 2023-01-26.

10 answers have been received.

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Review of proposal for the background section

1. Review of proposal for the background section

Review the draft proposal for the Background section and the first two paragraphs in the Guidance in this document section that follows. This contains the initial proposal from Issue 20 with edits for additional uses of the WCAG2ICT note, among others. If you want to see the exact verbiage changes in a comparison view of the markdown, look at the pull request

Please indicate if you agree with the proposal. Note any suggested edits for improvement and/or reasoning in the comments field.

Summary

Choice	All responders
Choice	Results
The proposal can be incorporated into the WCAG2ICT editor's draft as-is.	4
The proposal can be incorporated into the WCAG2ICT editor' draft with some changes.	6
The proposal isn't ready to incorporate yet.

Details

Responder	Review of proposal for the background section	Comments
Phil Day	The proposal can be incorporated into the WCAG2ICT editor' draft with some changes.	Broken markdown link is still present "[[WCAG22]]" after the link Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2.
Laura Miller	The proposal can be incorporated into the WCAG2ICT editor's draft as-is.
Mary Jo Mueller	The proposal can be incorporated into the WCAG2ICT editor' draft with some changes.	I have noted a few comments on the pull request, repeated here: Suggest the first two sentences are edited to read: The previously published version of the W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr#WGNote" target="_blank">Working Group Note</a> was approved in September 2013. It was titled, <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-wcag2ict-20130905/" target="_blank">Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT)</a> and describes how WCAG 2.0 can be applied to ICT, specifically to non-web documents and software. In the third from the last sentence of the first paragraph, I suggest replacing "with edits and/or as noted" with "with edits and/or notes" to read: "Some success criteria are applicable without modification, and some success criteria are applicable with edits and/or as noted." In the pull request, some modifications were also made to the Guidance in this Document section. One editorial is "Recommendations" is misspelled. The rest looks good to me.
Thorsten Katzmann	The proposal can be incorporated into the WCAG2ICT editor's draft as-is.
Mike Pluke	The proposal can be incorporated into the WCAG2ICT editor' draft with some changes.	I think that, to avoid people mistakenly applying the "set of software programs" SCs to a group of related programs that fail to meet the very restrictive definition, it is worth adding a strong warning at the end of the Guidance paragraph that introduces and links to the "set of software programs" concept. I suggest adding the following: "It should be noted that it is exceptionally rare that any grouping of software programs will ever meet the very specific criteria necessary for them to be considered as a "set of software programs"."
Devanshu Chandra	The proposal can be incorporated into the WCAG2ICT editor's draft as-is.
Bruce Bailey	The proposal can be incorporated into the WCAG2ICT editor's draft as-is.	I concur with Mary Jo's edits, which resolves having Background section being at front part of introduction. WRT "edits and/or as noted" versus "with edits and/or notes" is also an improvement. My initial draft I was tripping over notes (comment boxes, essentially) as compared to Capital N (Working Group) Note.
Loïc Martínez Normand	The proposal can be incorporated into the WCAG2ICT editor' draft with some changes.	I agree with the proposed text, with the suggestions made by Maty Jo in the pull request page
Olivia Hogan-Stark	The proposal can be incorporated into the WCAG2ICT editor' draft with some changes.	Add comma after – “Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT)” "WCAG21CT is organized by..." – change to WCAG2ICT “Some success criteria are applicable without modification, and some success criteria are applicable with edits and/or as noted.” – Remove second “success criteria” “Another example is Section 508 (U.S.) Application of WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web ICT which looked…” – add comma after link “(guidance that is not normative, and that does not set requirements)” – remove comma. Is there a WCAG doc describing “normative” that we can link?
Chris Loiselle	The proposal can be incorporated into the WCAG2ICT editor' draft with some changes.	Markdown Links need to be updated: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 [[WCAG22]] to non-web information and communications technologies (ICT). Understanding WCAG 2.2 [[UNDERSTANDING-WCAG22]] Understanding WCAG 2.2 (Public Review Draft) [[UNDERSTANDING-WCAG22]] WCAG 2 Overview, Techniques for WCAG 2.2 [[WCAG22-TECHS]]