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Comment LC-1214: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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What is a process in terms of WCAG conformance is unenforceably vague, and at least in terms of the first example given, unfairly narrow.

Shopping generally progresses through browse, select, and checkout phases. Only the checkout is a rigidly serialized process. And on some sites you can get live assistance by which you could place your order by chat. So using a whole shopping site as an example of a 'process' which is subject to an "all or none" accessibility rule is unduly severe.

Proposed Change:

Include an accounting for equivalent facilitation separate from the individual testable hypotheses and integrated into the rollup of conformance assessment. (see next)

You might want to remark that it's not cool for a shopping site to claim conformance for a subset of the site that doesn't let people complete a purchase. But don't try to fold that policy value judgement into a W3C technical report. Let the latter be technical.; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMA] Discussed in the 19 April 2007 telecon: resolution: accept as proposed http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/04/19-wai-wcag-minutes.html Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0142.html; Resolution: We have included two provisions in the rewritten conformance section to deal with these issues. 4.) Alternate Versions: If the Web page does not meet all of the success criteria for a specified level, then a mechanism to obtain an alternate version that meets all of the success criteria can be derived from the nonconforming content or its URI, and that mechanism meets all success criteria for the specified level of conformance. The alternate version does not need to be matched page for page with the original (e.g. the alternative to a page may consist of multiple pages). If multiple language versions are available, then conformant versions are required for each language offered. 9.) Complete processes: If a Web page that is part of a process does not conform at some level, then no conformance claim is made at that level for any Web pages in that process. Example: An online store has a series of pages that are used to select and purchase products. All pages in the series from start to finish (checkout) must conform in order to claim conformance for any page that is part of the sequence. We have also added the following definition for "process." process series of user actions where each action is required in order to complete an activity Example 1: A series of Web pages on a shopping site requires users to view alternative products and prices, select products, submit an order, provide shipping information and provide payment information. Example 2: An account registration page requires successful completion of a Turing test before the registration form can be accessed.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)