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Comment LC-2666: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Duff Johnson <djohnson@commonlook.com>; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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EXISTING STANDARDS IGNORED

The document fails to take account of, or even acknowledge, the existence of accessibility standards developed specifically for non-web content such as ISO/IEC 29138, ISO/IEC 24786 or ISO 14289.; Related issues: LC-2663
(space separated ids); WG Notes:; Proposed Resolution: The WCAG2ICT task force was not charged with creating a normative standard nor with reviewing and evaluating standards from other organizations. In fact, the task force has no standing to make comments about the applicability or inapplicability of standards from other standards organizations. The Task Force's job is to provide informative guidance on how to apply the WCAG 2.0 principles, guidelines, and success criteria to non-web ICT in response to actions by the US Access Board and EU M376 standards development team proposing to use WCAG 2.0 as the standard for non-web ICT. If this task force were creating a normative standard and normatively citing parts of other standards as part of its standard, then it would indeed list those other standards. However this is not a group that is creating a normative standard. See also the introduction section and the excluded from scope section of the new draft document.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)