Re: Proposal: substitute "provisions" for "success criteria" throughout document

"Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG" <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:58:17 +0100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason White" <[email protected]>
To: "Web Content Guidelines" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:51 AM
Subject: Proposal: substitute "provisions" for "success criteria" throughout
document


>
> In his comments on WCAG 2.0, Ian suggested using the term "provisions"
> rather than "success criteria" throughout the document, for
> consistency with the terminology used in the User Agent Accessibility
> Guidelines 1.0.
>
> This would in no way be a substantive change to WCAG, only a
> terminological alteration. So far, the working group hasn't decided
> whether to adopt this suggestion.

I think that for a non-english user the term "provision" is less "clear"
than "success criteria"...