Re: Another automated accessibility testing tool

Hi,

thanks a lot for clarification. I wrote "seems to be", because I were 
not sure.
Although inviting them to the auto-wcag-group could generate valuable 
bidirectional input.

Have a good start of the week
Frank


Am 19.10.2014 16:12, schrieb Aurélien Levy:
> Hi,
>
> For now Accessiweb isn't the "official" evaluation methodology (I 
> think by "official" Frank mean that it's the French government 
> official rules to follow to be considered as accessible).
> The official evaluation methodology is the RGAA 2.2 but the next 
> version of RGAA will use a fork of the Accessiweb HTML5+ARIA 
> methodology also derived from WCAG 2.0 (maybe more than the previous 
> one because WCAG 2.0 techniques do not cover HTML5 for now and have 
> few ARIA techniques)
>
> I'm especially curious to see how the European Commission will judge 
> this new testing methodology who state that "RGAA 3.0 is fully 
> compatible with WCAG 2.0 but the reverse is not necessarily true " as 
> I see this as an important barrier for European competition for public 
> tenders
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Aurélien Levy
> ----
> Temesis
>
>> Hi Frank,
>>
>> On 17.10.2014 13:48, Frank Berker wrote:
>>> AccessiWeb seems to be an official french implementation of WCAG2.0
>>
>> Not sure what you mean, but there is no "official" implementation of 
>> WCAG 2.0 in any language. We have Authorized Translations, though:
>>  - http://www.w3.org/Translations/WCAG20-fr/
>>
>> This translation was developed by BrailleNet, who also develop their 
>> own set of rules (AccessiWeb), derived from WCAG 2.0 (and some 1.0).
>>
>> Hope this helps clarify the particular point about the relationship 
>> between AccessiWeb and WCAG.
>>
>> Best,
>>   Shadi
>>
>
>


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