Your comments on WCAG 2.0 Public Working Draft of May, 2007

Dear Shadi Abou-Zahra,

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http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/). The WCAG Working Group
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Loretta Guarino Reid, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Gregg Vanderheiden, WCAG WG Co-Chair
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On behalf of the WCAG Working Group

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Comment 1: clarifying how to evaluate complete processes or transactions
Source: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jul/0021.html
(Issue ID: 2316)
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Original Comment:
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A complete process or transaction may include different alternative
paths depending on user profiles, user tasks or other factors (e.g. a
checkout process may be different depending on if the user is already
logged in the system, or registered but not logged in, or a new
member. It may be different also depending of the information provided
by the user or the mistakes that are made while introducing data)

>From an external perspective (external reviewer or auditor) it could
be hard (or even impossible) to get an idea about all the existing
paths and scenarios of a process as it requires a very good knowledge
of its design, so the question that arises is if all different
variants need to be considered, or testing just one of the possible
complete paths may be enough.

Proposed Change:
If the testing of all possible variations is going to be required,
there should be a clarification about this in the guidelines and
related documents to acknowledge the issue and help guide evaluators
who want to review web sites (as opposed to developers building the
site)

Received on Tuesday, 3 July 2007 11:02:19 GMT

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Response from Working Group:
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There is no requirement for testing at all.   But if a process may
take different paths and require different pages, the current language
would require that all the pages that could be involved would have to
conform or have alternatives that met Conformance Requirement 6.

Received on Sunday, 4 November 2007 05:11:19 UTC