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Comment LC-976: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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On the face of this, the requirement is unenforceably vague. Need to spell out what you mean by "the purpose of the link" and limit the requirement to concepts the user is likely to recognize.

Proposed Change:

Re-state as (roughly) "When the result of activating a link falls within the general meaning of a widely used and understood term or notion such as 'help' or 'home,' and there is a widely-reognized name or URI for this concept, the association of this link with that concept is machine-recoverable from the encoding of the content (Note 'encoding').; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMB] Discussed in the 28 September 2006 telecon: accepted by unanimous consent http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2006/09/28-wai-wcag-minutes.html {not-accept}; Resolution: While "purpose" may not perfectly communicate the goal of the link description, it was the best term the working group could come up with. The working group does not feel that using the longer and more technical description that you proposed will help readers understand the success criterion.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)