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Comment LC-597: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Martin Stehle <pewtah@snafu.de>; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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Comment (including rationale for any proposed change):

The note "Different sites may address...sufficient by the working group" is a little bit misleading in case of deaf people.

Proposed Change:

Please add to the note that in case of deaf people it is wrong to think about deaf people as human beings not able to understand "texts above upper secondary education level". It is not about cognitive impairments, it is about linguistic matters. It is just that many deaf people understand sign language better than written language, because sign language is their mother tongue. With sign language "texts above upper secondary education level" are more understandable for deaf people.; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMB] Discussed at Team B meeting on 6-27-2006. Decide to incorporate comments from Team B Survey results of June 22 (http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/teamb062206/results) into the database. Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0056.html Suggested new wording to address survey comments......... "On sites designed for people who are deaf, a sign language version of the page may be easier to understand than a written language version since sign language is commonly the first language of this user group." Discussed 29 June 2006 resolution: accept 557 as worded "For some people who are deaf, a sign language version of the page may be easier to understand than a written language version since sign language may be their first language." http://www.w3.org/2006/06/29-wai-wcag-minutes.html DONE - XML source updated 28 June 2006.; Resolution: Thanks you for your suggestion. We have replaced the sentence "For sites designed for people who are deaf a sign language version of the page may be most useful for users who cannot understand the text well." with the sentence "For some people who are deaf, a sign language version of the page may be easier to understand than a written language version since sign language may be their first language."; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)