Re: New A11Y Maturity Template with Cover included

Hi Charles,

I seem to recall discussions about an N/A option when we started creating the spreadsheet.

I was on the fence about it, as I felt like it would be too easy to mark relevant proof points that way when in fact, they would be applicable.

In the end, if they want to circumvent the intended and useful purpose of the maturity model and worksheet, they would only be hurting their organization’s maturity initiative. However, I do think that the escapes would be fairly obvious to others familiar with organizational accessibility criteria and the model, including knowledgeable people both within or external to the organization, such as customers requesting maturity information during procurements.

Bottom line, I guess I’m OK with including it, as I do see it being useful in situations where organizations, particularly smaller ones, that may not actually do or have need to do some proof points. If we decide to proceed with an N/A selection, I propose that we to add some instructions in the MM document and the worksheet cautioning careful thought and consideration before choosing to eliminate proof points with the “N/A” selection.

If the group agrees, would be happy to draft something, or do it collaboratively.

My $.02



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From: Charles LaPierre <charlesl@benetech.org>
Date: Friday, July 21, 2023 at 2:01 PM
To: Lionel Wolberger <lionel@userway.org>, Maturity Model TF <public-maturity@w3.org>
Cc: Sheri Byrne Haber <sbyrnehaber@vmware.com>, David Fazio <dfazio@helixopp.com>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
Subject: Re: New A11Y Maturity Template with Cover included
Hello everyone,

I found an issue with the excel spreadsheet.
We needed a “N/A” option for the dropdown list of choices for the status in case something doesn’t apply to an organization for this particular proof point.

The template dated A11yMaturityTemplate-20230721.xlsx has that for all dropdown lists
I also fixed some color issues in the template and locked the row/column headers so you know where you are when zoomed in.

This is in the GitHub PR, and also is attached here for convenience until we merge this into main.

Thanks
Charles
EOM

From: Charles LaPierre <charlesl@benetech.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 11:11 AM
To: Lionel Wolberger <lionel@userway.org>, Maturity Model TF <public-maturity@w3.org>
Cc: Sheri Byrne Haber <sbyrnehaber@vmware.com>, David Fazio <dfazio@helixopp.com>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
Subject: New A11Y Maturity Template with Cover included
Hello everyone,

I have added the cover page to the version of the excel spreadsheet Sheri provided us this morning.

I have also fixed all the excel Accessibility issues that the automatic checker was complaining about mainly color contrast issues and merged cells, and cleared some test data content from some of the sheets, adjusted row heights so all the text is visible and added alt text for the W3C logo on the cover page.

I also fixed the “Remaining proofpoints in this dimension to be assessed:” for each dimension.
Which was not removing the intermediate headers rows from the calculations.

Attached is the latest copy with all these improvements including the updated file name.

I will be adding this version to GitHub shortly.

Thanks
Charles
EOM

From: Lionel Wolberger <lionel@userway.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 9:01 AM
To: Maturity Model TF <public-maturity@w3.org>
Cc: Sheri Byrne Haber <sbyrnehaber@vmware.com>, David Fazio <dfazio@helixopp.com>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
Subject: Spreadsheet Cover page
In the 19 July TF meeting, I had an action to draft a cover page.

Purpose:

  *   Carry provenance information, with links
  *   Have a link to an online resource informing the user of the latest version of the sheet, with a link to download it. Also, in future that link may point to an online HTML version of this spreadsheet.
  *   Copyright info
  *   Change info

Here is the proposed solution, attached.

Thanks for everyone's help,

- Lionel


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