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Comment LC-832: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Rick Hill <rrhill@ucdavis.edu>; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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6. It would seem that WCAG 2 proposes maintaining separate accessible
and inaccessible versions of the same pages.; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMB] Relates to LC-737 Note that commenter's submission indicates that he did not have time to read the WCAG2 documents, but bases his comments on Joe Clark's article. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2006Jun/0001 Discussed in the 24 August 2006 telecon: Resolution: close 832 as proposed (mark as "conformance' in the short name) http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2006/08/24-wai-wcag-minutes.htm 01/28/07 Previous proposal ("WCAG2 permits maintaining separate accessible and inaccessible versions of the same pages. This accommodates providing versions of pages optimized for use by people with specific disabilities, as well as providing alternate versions of a page using different sets of technologies.)reworked. Discussed 01 Feb 2007 resolution: Accept 832 as proposed http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/02/01-wai-wcag-minutes.html {partial accept} @@Response to commenter:; Resolution: WCAG 2 does not promote the idea of maintaining separate accessible and inaccessible versions of the same pages, but does not prohibit maintaining separate accessible and inaccessible versions of the same pages as this accommodates the provision of versions of pages optimized for use by people with specific disabilities. Authors may use technologies that are not accessibility-supported Web technologies provided that the authors do not rely upon those technologies for conveying any information or functionality. That is, the information and functionality provided through the non-qualifying technology is also provided using accessibility-supported Web technologies. In addition, the presence of content in the non-accessibility-supported technology must not block the ability of the users to access the content via the accessible technologies. More information can be found on this in the Conformance section, http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/#conformance .; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)