Betr.: [Demo] Evaluation Report

Hello Shadi,

Very much like your document and the before after website. We use the
evaluation report template for our reports all the time. We do about 150
website evaluations per year and the reactions on the format are very
good.
But in the reports, we  cannot add the advice as you did because of EN
standard EN17020. Evaluators cannot give advice. That would more or less
compromise the independance of their (next) evaluation. Also in doing
this you/we would be repeating ourselves all the time as we see the same
problems on many websites. As a solution, we point to a seperate
brochure with all the explanations and many practical code examples. If
we encounter a new problem, we add a new part to the brochure. My advice
would be to take the advice out and point to another resource for that
like the curriculum.

Also it would be good to add the resources that were in the
scope/sample at the end of the document, although it is quite obvious
what they are in this case. For larger websites, this is very
interesting and necessary for conformancy with evaluation standards.

Kindest regards,

Eric Velleman
Accessibility Foundation
www.accessibility.nl





>>> Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org> 10-3-2006 13:48:05 >>>

Dear Group,

Apologies for the delay in sending this so shortly before the meeting,
I've been trying to put in everything we need for discussion on today's
call.

Please find the evaluation report for the Before/After Demo (BAD):
  <http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/2005/Demo/report>

Note: each of the sections in this report has enough content for
intense discussions so I propose that we use today's time to focus on
the overall structure and organization of the report. Specifically the
following aspects:

* If you were expecting an evaluation report for your Web site, is this
the type of information you would want in it? (Consider being a manager
or a developer)

* If you were writing an evaluation report for a Web site, does this
report help you as a model to follow?

* If you wanted to learn more about Web accessibility, does the
evaluation sufficiently outline some of the issues?


Looking forward to your input.

Regards,
  Shadi


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