Goals of New Version of Standard

The 'context' issue has been a round for a while now. The idea is that a given person might have different sets of needs nd preferences (n&p) depending on the context they are in. It is balanced by the requirement that the description of n&p is not a description of a person, or of a disability. My proposal is to think of the 'user in a context' as having the functional n&p. If this is done, the context can be named, for convenience, or known by its location, time, type of event or device, etc. I suggest that the context be defined as something like "the set of circumstances that give rise to a set of functional requirements for a resource/service to be perceivable, .... for the user."

I consider it really important that we do not end up with the need to describe the n&p and the context, but rather have a single thing to describe.