WCAG 2.0 checklist comments - editorial

[[[
4. This is the first public Working Draft of WCAG 2.0 Checklist.  While we  
intend
to provide a printable version and group Success Criteria by Level,
is the information presented clearly? Is this format an effective tool to  
help
determine conformance to WCAG 2.0?
]]] - http://www.w3.org/mid/6.1.2.0.2.20050701193111.0209a910@localhost

The linear [0] version is easier to read than the table [1], simply  
because it provides some meaningful headers.

"1.3 L2 SC3" is somewhat off-putting as a heading - having the text  
expanded to real words would make it easier to read. It may also be worth  
numbering all success criteria sequentially, from 1 to 333 (or however  
many there finally are), as is done with teh requirements and good  
practices in QA's SpecGL [2].

Having used several tools designed to help with evaluation, and in  
particular Hera, which takes a similar approach to providing a complete  
checklist, I think that the format is a reasonably helpful one. Making it  
more compact would be a lot better for frequent use, and making it  
actually generate a basic EARL report would be even more valuable. But  
these are both functions that tool developers can manage for themselves.

Review of the technical detail will take a little longer :-)

cheers

Chaals

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-20050630/checklist-linear
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-20050630/checklist
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/PR-qaframe-spec-20050629/

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Charles McCathieNevile                              chaals@opera.com
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Received on Saturday, 2 July 2005 00:19:17 UTC