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Comment LC-982: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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The definition in the Glossary makes the similarity test for things that are to be identified alike too narrow. It says identical result; that is much too narrow. This equivalence class should be made as broad as possible until it starts to degrade the user's ability to predict the system response from the prompt material. For example, context-sensitive help will be identified in the context menu simply as 'help' although the precise results are different for each context. This minimizes the vocabulary the user has to learn. The class of like-identified action opportunities defines the actual concept; the question is how the user's interpretation of the prompt material -- the concept identification -- matches this.

Proposed Change:

Move to section under the education and usability principle "repetition builds recall". In other words, address usability explicitly in the development of the set of provisons, don't just make a vague disclaimer that doesn't admit how what we do say is straight from usability, but applied to mitigating PWD risks of funtion failure, task failure or interminable task times.; Related issues: 984
(space separated ids); WG Notes: [EDITORZ] Discussed in the 22 February 2007 telecon: Accepted by unanimous consent. http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/02/22-wai-wcag-minutes.html {partial accept} DONE revise the definition of "same functionality" to read, "same result when used" Internal WD updated 05 March 2007 Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0108.html; Resolution: We have revised the introduction text to read, "The guidelines do not include standard usability recommendations except where they have a significantly greater impact on people with disabilities than on other people." We have also changed "identical" to "same" in the definition of "same functionality". Beyond this, we are not using usability as an organizing principle and are not addressing usability explicitly.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)