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CONCLUSION WCAG 2.0 is useful in the web context precisely because it’s web-centric. HTML developers can arrive at a reasonable understanding of how to apply WCAG 2.0 concepts more-or-less directly to the explicit structures of the HTML language and functional parameters of media files and JavaScript. The WCAG2ICT is replete with unsubstantiated claims together with (seemingly) casual and ill-considered assumptions. Given that the document offers the wholesale application of technical concepts to technologies and contexts never envisioned by WCAG 2.0’s authors, these failures are catastrophic with respect to the current draft. This document cannot be regarded as a serious attempt to address accessibility specifications in non-web content and ICT. This is simply the wrong mission for W3C and WAI, whose concerns are (rightly) web content. Further development of the WCAG2ICT along the current lines will bring disrepute to W3C since this project falls so far out of W3C’s scope and expertise, and meshes so poorly with the subject at hand. Accordingly, the WCAG2ICT should be entirely re-scoped and revised, moved to an appropriate body for further development, or terminated.