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Comment LC-2823
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Commenter: Duff Johnson <duff@duff-johnson.com>

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In general the first two paragraphs are very hard to understand. What's the real value here? Why not state it clearly? I would rewrite the first two paras into one, as follows:

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WCAG2ICT is not a standard, so it is not possible to conform to WCAG2ICT. However, some entities may wish to use the information in WCAG2ICT to help establish standards or regulations regarding accessibility in ICT that are based on WCAG 2.0. While such standards or regulations will need to address matters of conformance themselves, the following notes may be of assistance to those wishing to draft their own requirements:
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Item 1 in the list - Would it not be better to refer to 'levels of compliance" rather than "conformance requirements"? It would seem more in keeping with WCAG 2.0, IMO. Also in the 2nd sentence… change "was" to "is".

Item 2. Is this really necessary? What value does it add?

Item 3 in the list. It's unfortunate that the "i.e." here refers to a web-page - that's precisely what we don't (in principle) need WCAG2ICT to understand. Why not refer to an ATM machine, or a keypad, or whatever?

Item 4 in the list - similar problem to that raised with Item 3 in the parentheticals. C'mon, use a PDF or an ATM machine as an example! Also, the 2nd sentence should begin: "Conformance with WCAG 2.0 requires…."

Item 5 I admire this point - good thinking.

Last paragraph. This is a reasonable re-statement, but I think you should go further to point out that you do not intend a result that would characterize software with a broad brush. After all, if popular product X is fantastically accessible for things that 97% of people care about, but also includes some fancy features used by 3%… maybe those features are non-conforming, but that doesn't really mean the whole application deserves to be tarred and feathered with "Fails WCAG 2.0 (as read via WCAG2ICT)".
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