- From: Michael Cooper <michaelc@watchfire.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:29:50 -0500
- To: "WAI GL (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
PRESENT Janae Andershonis Tim Boland Doyle Burnett Ben Caldwell Wendy Chisholm Michael Cooper Tom Croucher David MacDonald Matt May Chris Ridpath DISCUSSION QA work - Janae has been reviewing the HTML techniques for quality, consistency, etc. She will send a report to the list soon and we discussed some of the details. We discussed the question of whether all the code examples should be complete HTML files so people can copy them to an editor and play with them. We thought it would be good to support that use case but within the techniques themselves it is desirable in many cases for the examples to remain as fragments. There are a number of things that need to be done on future drafts of the techniques for QA: * test that each technique is a useful implementation of its guideline * test that everything that should be is present * find user agent issues with techniques * clean up grammar HTML techniques - having converted the checklist item to true/false statements, they didn't sit well as is. We decided to revert them to their previous form and call them "tasks"; the concept of true/false checklist items remains but will be presented just in actual checklists. We also looked briefly at the abstract, considering that this is the first working draft of HTML techniques for WCAG 2.0 so it needs to be appropriate. The draft under discussion was [1] and following this discussion, a new draft has been posted to [2]. Web page testing - Chris presented work he's been doing. He has created a database of every conceivable accessibility requirement, at a very fine-grained level, for use by machine and human evaluation. This is more detailed than the techniques, and includes positive and negative test files. The proposal is to map the guidelines and techniques to checks in this database, resulting in a definition of testing requirements to support WCAG. Not all checks in this database would map to WCAG as there are checks designed around other sets of checks. This work overlaps with that of the Authoring Tools Working Group, the (currently unchartered) Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group, and Euroaccessibility Task Force 2. We discussed issues of process and goals arising from all this, and will continue the discussion in a couple weeks. ACTION ITEMS * Ben: We change the label for "checklist item" to "task" and revert to older wording * Wendy, David: Review abstract of HTML techniques REFERENCES [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20031104.html [2] http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20031105.html -- Signature -- Michael Cooper Accessibility Product Manager, Watchfire 1 Hines Rd, Kanata, ON K2K 3C7, Canada +1 (613) 599-3888 x4019 michaelc@watchfire.com http://www.watchfire.com/ Watchfire's spam filter often mistakes legitimate email for spam. If this filter sends you a reply that an email to me was not delivered, please inform me of the problem using alternate contact information provided above. I do not consider your message spam and apologize for problems caused by this filter.
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