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Comment LC-1536: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> on behalf of DocArch, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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Should the baseline also identify the human or natural languages that the content covered by the conformance claim relies upon?
The rationale for this is twofold.
1. Success criteria 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 require language markup, especially for the benefit of users of speech synthesis and/or braille, but this language markup is of little benefit if the languages are not supported by, for example, the user\'s speech synthesis software.
2. Success criterion 3.1.5 requires supplemental content if text requires a reading ability more advanced than the lower secondary education level, but the algorithms or methods to determine the required reading ability are language-specific. (Similarly, the techniques you use to conform to WCAG depend on the technologies in your baseline.)

Proposed Change:

Consider adding the human languages that the content relies upon to the baseline. (This would imply a distinction between \"baseline technologies\", i.e. the current baseline concept, and \"baseline human languages\".); Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMA] LATE COMMENT - SUBMITTED 06 DECEMBER 2006 Discussed in the 19 April 2007 telecon: accepted by unanimous consent http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/04/19-wai-wcag-minutes.html {partial accept} Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0007.html; Resolution: The conformance section of WCAG2 has been completely rewritten. The term "baseline" has been replaced by "accessibility-supported Web technologies". The issue of what it means to be an accessibility-supported Web technology is addressed in the section "Accessibility Support of Web Technologies" at http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/#accessibility-support . In analyzing whether a technology is accessibility supported, language support can and should be taken into account. This would be reflected in the documentation for the accessibility support including the language support of the various assistive technologies used in the analysis/report.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)