Re: ERT Action Item: Use Case Scenarios for EARL

Giorgio Brajnik wrote:

> A possible way to increase market pressure on EARL could be the 
> adoption, by WAI, of a new "accessibility conformity logo" to be put, by 
> web developers, into the pages they produce to claim a certain level of 
> accessibility (eg. wcag1.0 AA). Like the one that is usually linked to 
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1A-Conformance.html.en .

One problem that I see is: For HTML validity you have strict rules that 
can be checked automatically. In fact that is what makes up validation 
(at least in the SGML context): checking against a formal grammar, like 
a referenced DTD. For the WCAG accessibility levels it is not sufficient 
to pass an automated test. So the logo could only claim "passed XYZ 
automated test with no errors".
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