Success Criteria Best Practice Guidelines

On Tuesday’s call the Working Group did not get to discuss the best practice guidelines, but we wanted to get discussion going on the list.  The survey where we started the discussion on this is https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/reqsWCAG21/results.


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Success Criteria Best Practice Guidelines

For the Working Group to accept a candidate success criterion, they need to fit within the overall structure. The following are guidelines that will help the Working Group efficiently process suggested SC:

  *   Ensure that the criteria is written as simply as possible. SC are better when they:
     *   Are short in length
     *   Minimize the use of lists and when necessary numbered lists are preferred to more easily allow referencing specific items
     *   Do not require the use of "notes" (Notes are regarded as Normative in WCAG 2.0 and 2.1)
     *   Avoid jargon and unnecesarily complex language.
  *   When utilizing a glossary term (or adding a glossary term) the SC needs to make sense when the defined term is replaced with the full glossary definition.
  *   The SC can be summarized into a simple language sentence that describes its theme

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Please provide any comments/suggestions.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Standards and Accessibility
Adobe

akirkpat@adobe.com
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