Edit comment LC-882 for Accessibility Guidelines Working Group

Quick access to

Previous: LC-2751 Next: LC-927

Comment LC-882: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> on behalf of DocArch - K.U.Leuven; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

or; Refinement of the section concerned:; Status:
assigned to; Type:; Resolution status:
Response drafted Resolution implemented Reply sent to commenter; Response status:
No response from Commenter yet Commenter approved disposition Commenter objected to disposition
Commenter's response (URI):; Comment:
Part of Item:
Comment Type: substantive
Comment (including rationale for proposed change):

The note to SC 3.1.2 reads: \"This requirement does not apply to individual words or phrases that have become part of the primary language of the content.\": this is a problem for foreign words in a passage or quote that is not in the primary language.
This wording was introduced in the June 2006 Working Draft; before that, it read \"This does not include use of foreign words in text where such usage is a standard extension of the language,\" but I believe this was changed because the term \"foreign\" was considered problematic.

Proposed Change:

Rephrase the note to: \"This requirement does not apply to individual words or phrases that have become part of the language of the immediately neighbouring text.\"; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [EDITORZ] Discussed in the 13 July 2006 telecon: resolution: accept LC-882 as amended "This requirement does not apply to individual words or phrases that have become part of the language of the phrase or passage in which they are used." http://www.w3.org/2006/07/13-wai-wcag-minutes.html {accept} DONE revise note to read: "This requirement does not apply to individual words or phrases that have become part of the language of the phrase or passage in which they are used." Internal draft update 10 August. BBC: Updated to match resolution to LC-913. (05 March 2007) Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0007.html; Resolution: We have revised the note to read, "This requirement does not apply to individual words. It also does not apply to proper names, to technical terms or to phrases that have become part of the language of the context in which they are used."; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)