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Comment LC-947: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: M.F. Laughton <adio@crc.ca> on behalf of Government of Canada; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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It is felt that this is a very weak part of the guidelines.

Proposed Change:

A level 2 item should stress that the initial or primary "presentation of the content" is accessible, not just some version.; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMB] Discussed in the 01 February 2007 telecon: andi, alex, ben, gregg, john to work on "same page"/"same URI" issue for alternative versions http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/02/01-wai-wcag-minutes.html Discussed in the 15 March 2007 telecon: Resolution: Accept as proposed. http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/03/15-wai-wcag-minutes.html DONE refer to proposed revisions to CC4, Understanding documents and techniques at <http://tinyurl.com/34wxyx> {not-accept} DONE David to rewrite response to 947 to change wording without changing the meaning (David writes "I will wait until this SC settles down. It is still in flux.); Resolution: Users may reach the page via a variety of paths which makes it difficult to clearly test for a default view. For instance, a search engine may link directly to the inaccessible version and for that user the inaccessible version would be the default because that is the first page that they landed on in the site when they came from the search engine. Another issue is that different users may have different content negotiation results and therefore the "default" version is could change based on user settings. We have reworked this Success Criteria and moved it to the conformance section. Alternate Versions: If the Web page does not meet all of the success criteria for a specified level, then a mechanism to obtain an alternate version that meets all of the success criteria can be derived from the nonconforming content or its URI, and that mechanism meets all success criteria for the specified level of conformance. The alternate version does not need to be matched page for page with the original (e.g. the alternative to a page may consist of multiple pages). If multiple language versions are available, then conforming versions are required for each language offered.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)