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Re: Native or web?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 29, 2019 11:50AM

On 29/01/2019 18:34, glen walker wrote:
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> Perhaps someone involved in the specs for both WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0 could
> comment further on the history.

Well, for what it's worth I've been involved in WCAG 2.1, and I can say
that the "Web Content" part is still meant to mean..."Web". And there's
strong debate about what does or doesn't constitute "Web Content". A
native app is not "Web Content".

https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#dfn-content means that there's a "user
agent" (commonly read as: browser, or PDF reader, or similar). For
native apps, there's no such thing.

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