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Comment LC-2689: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Alex Li <alli@microsoft.com> on behalf of Microsoft; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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WCAG2ICT should be prepared to recognize that portions of WCAG 2.0 may not be appropriate for non-web ICT
We recognize that those success criteria that are more easily translated for the non-web ICT context managed to achieve consensus in the first draft. But there are a number success criteria that are far more challenging. It is important to recognize that WCAG was written for web content only and that non-web ICT is fundamentally different from web content. We encourage WCAG2ICT TF to declare certain portions of WCAG 2.0 unfit for non-web ICT if the TF fail to create proper language to translate WCAG 2.0 for use in non-web ICT context.; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes:; Proposed Resolution: Before we complete our work, we intend to find consensus on all of the items. At this point, we have consensus on how all success criteria are to be applied to documents and how all but 4 of them are to be applied to software. We do recognize that many of the success criteria assume the presence of assistive technology which makes them problematic for non-web ICT products with closed functionality. In the second public draft, we have therefore added a section in the introduction and Appendix A to address closed functionality. We also have not yet had time to examine command line interfaces for any possible issues.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)