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EWG:Draft July 18: Section 8 Comments

Editorial Working Group > July 18 Draft

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Discussion for Section 8.1 If a Content Format

Discussion or Rationale (for entire section): The Web and Software subcommittee was charged with looking at the issue of accessible content - e-mail, attachments in e-mail, etc. One issue is that the content format itself has to have certain features to enable the creation of accessible content. We therefore recommend adding a section that defines the necessary accessibility features. Agencies should store information only in compliant content formats and should therefore purchase products that support compliant content formats. Note that content creators still have to utilize the features in order for the content to actually be accessible.