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Comment LC-1524: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Loretta Guarino Reid <lguarino@adobe.com> on behalf of Adobe Systems; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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One of the clauses of 1.1.1 addresses General non-text content:
General Non-text Content: If non-text content presents information or responds to user input, then text alternatives serve the same purpose and present the same information as the non-text content. If text alternatives cannot serve the same purpose, then text alternatives at least identify the purpose of the non-text content.

It is hard to imagine how a text alternative can ever serve the same purpose as content that responds to user input, which makes this very confusing. It seems that the only way to satisfy this for content that responds to user input is to provide a text alternative that identifies the purpose of the content, that is, a label. However, labels are already required for user interface components in SC 4.1.2.

Proposed Change:

1. Define non-text content so that it is clear that content that responds to user input is not covered by this SC.
2. With this change, clarify the statement of SC 1.1.1 and the How to Meet document.; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMC] Discussed in the 16 November 2006 telecon: RESOLUTION: LC-1524 accepted as proposed http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2006/11/16-wai-wcag-minutes.html DONE update 1.1.1 text to match 09 Nov. changes XML updated 19 January 2007 Discussed in the 15 March 2007 telecon: Resolution: close 1.1.1 wording issue as proposed Issue 956, Issue 1524, and Issue 885, Issue 955, and Issue 960, Issue 738, Issue 1281, Issue 1282, Issue 1506, Issue 801, Issue 800, Issue 1155 http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/03/15-wai-wcag-minutes.html {accept} DONE Modify 1.1.1 based on proposal at <http://tinyurl.com/ysfsks>; Respond with: ------ Response from commenter: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0001.html; Resolution: We have modified SC 1.1.1 to address this issue. See http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/#text-equiv-all .; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)