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Comment LC-683: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Bruno von Niman <ANEC_W3CRep_Bruno@vonniman.com> on behalf of ANEC (ANEC-ICT-2006-W3C-006); Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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Commenter's response (URI):; Comment:
Comment (including rationale for any proposed change):

(European) cultural diversity issues should be
addressed in more detail and be included as
conformance criteria (e.g. image texts)

Proposed Change:

WCAG 2.0 should provide at least cross-references to
other work addressing multicultural issues related to
accessibility, more than Japanese and Chinese; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [EDITORZ] Sent a note to Bruno on 6/19/06 asking for clarification. =============== START OF EMAIL TO BRUNO=========== From: Gregg Vanderheiden [mailto:gv@trace.wisc.edu] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 10:43 PM To: 'Bruno von Niman (ANEC W3C)' Subject: requiest for more details Hi Bruno, Thank you for your comment (below). Can you give us more information on exactly what you have in mind? It isnâ€™t clear what you would like to see added. Specifically, if you could give us the wording that you think should be included and the location in the Understanding WCAG 2.0 or Techniques doc where you think the text should be included it would be most helpful. Thank you very much Gregg Vanderheiden Document: WCAG 2.0 Guidelines Submitter: Bruno von Niman <ANEC_W3CRep_Bruno@vonniman.com> Affiliation: ANEC (ANEC-ICT-2006-W3C-006) Comment Type: general comment Comment: Comment (including rationale for any proposed change): (European) cultural diversity issues should be addressed in more detail and be included as conformance criteria (e.g. image texts) Proposed Change: WCAG 2.0 should provide at least cross-references to other work addressing multicultural issues related to accessibility, more than Japanese and Chinese Status: open =============== END OF EMAIL TO BRUNO=========== =============== REPLY FROM BRUNO =============== From: Bruno von Niman [mailto:ANEC_W3CRep_Bruno@vonniman.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:10 AM To: gv@trace.wisc.edu Cc: 'Chiara Giovannini'; 'Bruno von Niman' Subject: ANEC's delivery on: Request for more details Importance: High Hi Gregg, Thanks you for your request for additional clarifications and a proposed text to be included. As you may recall, ANEC represents the interests of European consumers in standardization. As the European consumer's ICT environment is truly and widely multicultural, it would be important to ensure that Web accessibility supports multicultural and multilingual accessibility and interoperability issues to the largest possible extent. Consumers communicating and accessing commercial, eGovernment, eLearning, eHealth, eBusiness or emergency services should be provided with an interaction that is compatible with their own culture. Services should ideally be able to support the context dependent cultural and language preferences of a wide range of consumers, including people communicating with people or accessing services in other countries, a consumer who only speaks a minority language of a country, someone who only has a limited vocabulary in their own language. Therefore, one way or the other, some additional recommendations, based on the below list, could be made: 1. The provision of text- and audio-based content in the user's preferred (e.g. native) language; 2. The support of multilingual information provisioning and interaction, e.g. contacting customer support and emergency call centers; 3. The support of cultural conventions (e.g. km/mile), cultural dependencies (e.g. character sorting orders) and localization standards to be followed to the largest possible degree; 4. The provision of information about the accuracy of the content provided (e.g. information about machine translation vs. expert translation of texts); 5. (If beneficial, there is ongoing, EC-funded work, developing guidelines for the design and use of multicultural ICT to reference in more detail; I can provide further details upon request). I would leave the format and placement of the final text addition to the WG, having the best sense for where and in which document it can be fitted, causing minimal disturbance and delays to the processing of WCAG 2.0. With best regards, on behalf of ANEC, Bruno von Niman ANEC W3C Representative =============== END OF REPLY FROM BRUNO =============== Discussed in the 31 August 2006 telecon: resolution: accept LC-683 as amended http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2006/08/31-wai-wcag-minutes.html {partial accept} DONE add the following placeholders to How to meet Guidelin 3.1: Setting expectations about auto-generated or user-contributed content (future link) Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0230.html; Resolution: Many of the suggestions you provide appear to be cultural accommodations and the accessibility implications are not always clear. We have adapted some of your suggestions as advisory techniques for Guideline 3.1 and have added the following placeholder to How to Meet Guideline 3.1: Setting expectations about auto-generated or user-contributed content (future link); (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)