- From: Johannes Koch <johannes.koch@fit.fraunhofer.de>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:28:42 +0200
- To: public-wai-ert@w3.org
Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >> 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". > > > No, the way that Hera is designed to work does the sort of thing > Giorgio is suggesting. > > First it runs some automatic tests. Some of these give outright > results, some are diagnostic. The diagnostic results, plus the tests > that can't be automated at all (wel, for which we have no automation > :-) are used to guide the user to do manual review. The results are > combined, and this is used to give an overall result. So the EARL report has to be created and linked to the logo. It will not be a link to some on-the-fly test like with HTML/CSS validation. -- Johannes Koch - Competence Center BIKA Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT.LIFE) Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany Phone: +49-2241-142628 -- Johannes Koch - Competence Center BIKA Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT.LIFE) Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany Phone: +49-2241-142628
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