Re: Reworking Moble TF Doc to turn into WACG Extension

Great stuff David! I look forward to reading it. 

Thanks 

Josh 

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On 27 Aug 2015 03:09, at 03:09, David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Hi All
>
>I've spent the day with our main mobile document, to begin a discussion
>and
>reorganization of Mobile Accessibility: How WCAG 2.0 and Other W3C/WAI
>Guidelines Apply to Mobile. The original wording is kept in tact
>wherever
>possible, with small adjustments for grammar on proposed new Success
>Criteria. The new SCs are only slightly tweaked and will need more
>work.
>This is the beginning of the process and we'd have to address or
>incorporate all concerns and comments on recent posts to the mailing
>list.
>I've incorporated Detlev's work on Success Criteria also.
>
>http://davidmacd.com/blog/mobile-tf-proposal.html
>I would post on Github but I'm still figuring out SourceTree
>​and didn't want to delay.
>
>The purpose of this is reorganization is to:
>
>-Tease out the advice that can be turned into WCAG Guidelines, Success
>Criteria, and Techniques-
>-Document which advice cannot become Success Criteria with their
>current
>wording
>-See if they can be fixed to be Success Criteria
>-Or move them to advisory (best practices), or Sufficient Techniques
>for an
>existing Success Criteria understanding that almost no one follows
>advisory
>or best practice advice.
>-Recommend moving all prose that is not a Success Criteria, Guideline
>or
>Technique to the Understanding Doc for these new Success Criteria,
>Guidelines, etc.
>-Turn the information into a form digestible as an Normative Extension
>Spec. for WCAG 2
>
>The two core prerequisites that allow advice to become a Success
>Criteria
>for WCAG 2 are:
>
>Summary and conclusions
>
>-The big take away is the introduction of a new Guideline 2.5 under
>which
>about 5 new Success Criterion where Touch advice would fall.
>-There are 11 new Success Criteria. (Some could be demoted to
>techniques)
>-There are 17 New Advisory Success Criteria (some may be reworked to
>SCs,
>or allocated to techniques)
>-There are 10 new techniques
>-Some of the advice in the document is not testable, or does not apply
>in
>all circumstances, which turns them into best practices or advisory
>under
>current WCAG formulation.
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>David MacDonald
>
>
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