ACT Rules Community Group Launched

With your support, the ACT Rules Community Group has been launched:
  http://www.w3.org/community/act-r/

This group was originally proposed on 2019-04-04
by Wilco Fiers. The following people supported its
creation: 
      Wilco Fiers
      Bryn Anderson
      Brian Bors
      Emma Pratt Richens
      Jey Nandakumar
      Anne Thyme Nørregaard
      JOSE HILERA
      Frank Berker
      Audrey Maniez
      Steve Faulkner
      Corbb O’Connor
  

To join the group, please use:
 http://www.w3.org/community/act-r/join

Please note that supporting a group is different from joining
a group. Supporters must also enroll if they wish to participate.

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The ACT Rules Community Group (previously known as Auto-WCAG), is an
open forum set up to document and harmonise the interpretation of W3C
accessibility standards, such as WCAG and WAI-ARIA, for testing
purposes.

The ACT Rules Community Group (ACT-R) achieves this by bringing together
the people developing, implementing and using various accessibility
testing tools and methodologies to document interpretations as test
rules. Test rules are defined using the ACT Rules Format, and reviewed
by the community. The process of researching, documenting, and sharing
knowledge from different perspectives within the group, builds towards a
common understanding. Publishing rules is not an end point for
harmonization, it's a starting point. By publishing such test rules,
ACT-R hopes to motivate organisations to share their own insights, and
encourage adoption of commonly agreed test rules.

ACT-R is not set up to remove differences or impose changes on
accessibility testing tools and methodologies. There is value in
innovation and diverse approaches. Rather it aims to contribute to more
consistent results, regardless of how the testing is done. Knowing when
something meets a requirement, and when it does not, should be clear and
consistent. 

This group will not publish specifications. 
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Thank you,

W3C Community Development Team

Received on Thursday, 4 April 2019 14:54:17 UTC