- From: Chris Ridpath <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:07:49 -0400
- To: "WAI-GL" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, "Joe Clark" <joeclark@joeclark.org>
About half of the test files in our test suite [1] contain known accessibility problems. That's their purpose - they're examples of accessibility problems. I think this is a concrete example of what Joe is talking about. Perhaps Joe's concerns can be addressed in a conformance statement. Wendy recently posted a draft of a WCAG2 conformance statement [2] that includes a required scope for the claim (item 7). She has suggested that the scope include a list of URI's or an expression that identifies the scope of the claim. I agree that the scope is a necessary part of the claim. I suggest we allow authors to include exceptions within the scope statement. For example a scope claim for the test suite could look like: "All the HTML files in the test suite are WCAG2 Level 2 compliant except for example files that contain known accessibility problems." In a case like this we could require that all links to non-compliant example files be clearly marked as such. We could also require that all the compliant files contain a conformance icon or statement. Joe - is this use of the conformance statement enough to satisfy your concerns? Cheers, Chris [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/tests/ [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005AprJun/0021.html
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