Re: Silver Requirements Issues

Jonathan,

The Silver Task Force agrees.  Silver has always worked under the 
assumption that it must be able to be used in a regulatory environment.  
I heard some rumors last winter that Silver was going to be informative 
and WCAG 2.x would be the normative version.  That is false.  I tried to 
set the record straight whenever I heard it and hoped that word would 
spread.  Silver will be able to be used in regulatory environment.  The 
policy makers I have talked to outside the US are particularly 
interested to see Silver address their needs.

The Silver Design Sprint included lawyers and policy makers. The model 
for the conformance prototype we are currently developing came from a 
lawyer from the US Office of Civil Rights. Representatives from 
accessibility consultancies and major companies also gave their needs 
and solutions that included ideas for conformance. The conformance 
statement ideas were not developed in detail in the Design Sprint, 
although it was discussed in several groups. We did not have the time to 
develop all the ideas that people wanted to.  That's what we are doing now.

As Silver refines the prototypes that people are submitting, they will 
be user tested.  Some of the users will be lawyers and policy makers.  
We will include international policy makers.  I have a few contacts for 
accessibility lawyers outside the US, and we will try to include them as 
well.

jeanne


On 7/10/2018 12:52 PM, Jonathan Avila wrote:
>
> Thanks David, I agree.   Most of our clients want support statements 
> indicating how they support WCAG even though they don’t fully conform 
> to the standards. They are being told by legal counsel to get a 
> support statement or conformance document that shows the progress they 
> have made, the sufficient steps they have taken toward conformance 
> even when full conformance as defined by WCAG is not met.
>
> Jonathan
>
> *From:* David MacDonald <david@can-adapt.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 10, 2018 12:05 PM
> *To:* WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Silver Requirements Issues
>
> I've filled an issue regarding retiring "testability" to be replaced 
> with "measurability" in Silver
>
> This is a huge issue, and there is very little discussion of this in 
> the requirements document. This requirement is pulling the testability 
> foundation out from under WCAG and replacing it with measurability. It 
> may or may not be a good thing. It could work out very well or it 
> could make the guidelines unusable in a legal framework. We would need 
> to get input from lawyers who have been involved in multiple 
> settlements and lawsuits involving WCAG.
>
> I think it is premature to declare this shift for Silver in the 
> requirements document, but rather the requirement should say that its 
> needs to investigate testability vs measurability as a basis for the 
> success criteria (or whatever they will be called in Silver).
>
>
> https://github.com/w3c/silver/issues/22
>
> Cheers,
> David MacDonald
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