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Comment LC-2824: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Duff Johnson <duff@duff-johnson.com>; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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A general comment based on an (admittedly somewhat cursory) read of the rest of this draft of WCAG2ICT.

Insofar as it seems valuable to attempt to apply WCAG 2.0 to ICT generally (I won't dwell on this for now), I think this specific approach, while not without value, largely serves to demonstrate the gulf between abstract generalizations and technical reality as implemented.

At the end of the day: is there enough information here to allow (say) a government agency to craft policies to cover web pages *and* desktop software *and* mobile software *and* electronic documents (PDF, XLSX, etc) *and* ATMs, and and and and….? Or… pick on just documents. Would a Section 508 coordinator be better-informed as to how to implement a "WCAG 2.0 policy" based on this document? Would a software developer have a better understanding of how to invest time in electronic document software development because of WCAG2ICT?

I think those are the questions that I was hoping this document would answer a bit more than it does.; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes:; Resolution: This is a comment and question. Various members of the task force have different responses to this complex question. (perhaps as many different responses as there are members of the committee). However, we do not think that this document by itself is sufficient to for anyone to draft policies. The expertise of the members of the bodies creating the standards, the comments from public and agency commenters, and literature in the field are just three other important sources of information. Action: no change to document; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)