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Comment LC-1241: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Henny Swan <henny.swan@rnib.org.uk> on behalf of Royal National Institute of the Blind; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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Comment: Where it states "The broader term was chosen because it covers Web applications and other types of content to which the word "page" may not apply" it gives no example of a "web unit" that is not a "web page".

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Provide an example of a "web unit" that is not a web page.; Related issues: 862
(space separated ids); WG Notes: [EDITORZ] [HOLD] Discussed in the 15 March 2007 telecon: Resolution: accept definition of web page as amended http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/03/15-wai-wcag-minutes.html {resolved} DONE replace the 2nd paragraph of "Important new terms.." with a paragraph at the end of the section that reads: While not an entirely new term, it is important to note that the term "Web page" has evolved to accommodate the increasingly dynamic nature of content. A Web page is any collection of information consisting of one or more resources intended to be rendered as a single unit and identified by a single Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). It includes Web applications, webcasts, multimedia objects and other types of interactive content to which the word "page" may not typically apply. It is in this evolved sense of the concept that the term is used in WCAG 2.0. Example: An interactive, movie-like resource where the user navigates through a virtual environment, interacts with products to have them demonstrated or to learn more about them, and then moves them to a cart to buy them would be considered a "Web page." " Respond with.; Resolution: We have replaced the term "Web unit" with "Web page" and have modified this section to describe our use of the term in greater detail. We have also added an example of content that may not immediately be recognized as a "Web page." The definition, found at http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/#webpagedef , now reads: Web page a resource that is referenced by a URI and is not embedded in another resource, plus any other resources that are used in the rendering or intended to be rendered together with it Note: Although any "other resources" would be rendered together with the primary resource, they would not necessarily be rendered simultaneously with each other. Example 1: When you enter http://shopping.example.com/ in your browser you enter a movie-like interactive shopping environment where you visually move about a store dragging products off of the shelves around you into a visual shopping cart in front of you. Clicking on a product causes it to be demonstrated with a specification sheet floating alongside. Example 2: A Web resource including all embedded images and media. Example 3: A Web mail program built using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX). The program lives entirely at http://mail.example.com, but includes an inbox, a contacts area and a calendar. Links or buttons are provided that cause the the inbox, contacts, or calendar to display, but do not change the URL of the page as a whole. Example 4: A customizable portal site, where users can choose content to display from a set of different content modules.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)