- From: Wilco Fiers <wilco.fiers@deque.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 14:09:06 +0200
- To: dsloan@paciellogroup.com
- Cc: public-silver@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAHVyjGNP8d_4Uv84v5F=OBTeW0X2c0-af__h0R0Ewm8QxdHTsg@mail.gmail.com>
David, Mark, Not to ignore your suggestion of putting together a document, but I think we need to have at least some common idea of what to do about this cost question before we can put anything together. I'm happy to work on something once we've gotten closer to a solution, but I think this discussion needs to run its course first. @John, you've raised a lot of concerns now, but I haven't really heard any alternative suggestions from you yet. The question is, how do we enable organisations with a small budget to still use Silver? Another perspective I want to add is that organisations are already using "light" versions of WCAG. Even the W3C has gotten in on that game with the easy checks (https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/preliminary/). Many organisations use approaches like this. The question isn't if these types of tests should exist, but if we as a community want to recommend how to do this in a way that doesn't leave big gaps. Here's the thing. If we don't create a conformance level in Silver that is affordable to small businesses, either they'll do nothing instead, or they'll use some third party "light" testing method that didn't go through the quality controls of the W3C consensus process. It seems to me like Silver should be achievable not just for the top 5% of websites. If you want to talk percentages, this is the discussion we should have. How many websites do we think should conform to Silver? Knowing if a site conforms required at least one test in the lifetime of a website. Ive created a Google spreadsheet to help us see how the cost of audits disproportionally impact low budget websites: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/144ddhHfBUbRtWEoPdJ8MqsBDq0wzHDHgWJ-yL-fH7Ow/edit?usp=sharing (Let me know if anyone wants me to share a plain HTML version of these tables) Feel free to play around with the numbers. I think this shows quite well how 1) small sites need to reserve a disproportionately high budget for accessibility testing, and 2) how this could be solved by making adjustments for complexity of the website in Silver. Wilco
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