Re: Conformance and method 'levels'

Oops, I think I opened the wrong can of worms, I had just meant to point to the thread in terms of how drafting the guidelines/methods will be heavily influenced by the scoring. I hadn’t meant to get into the scoring approach as such.

-Alastair

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From: Jeanne Spellman <jspellman@spellmanconsulting.com>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2019 6:56:00 PM
To: public-silver@w3.org
Subject: Re: Conformance and method 'levels'


Patrick's comment makes a lot of sense to me.

I think we want to be careful about swapping A for Bronze, AA for Silver and AAA for Gold.  We want to get away from levels for individual success criteria and look at the Bronze Silver Gold as an overall score.  But I get the idea that it is low points, medium points and high points.

jeanne

On 6/21/2019 12:00 PM, Alastair Campbell wrote:
Hi everyone,

I think this is a useful thread to be aware of when thinking about conformance and how different methods might be set at different levels:
https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/782

It is about multimedia access, so the 1.2.x section in WCAG 2.x. You might think that it is fairly straightforward as the solutions are fairly cut & dried (captions, transcripts, AD etc.)

However, the tricky bit is at what level you require different solutions.

If you had a guideline such as “A user does not need to see in order to understand visual multimedia content”, then Patrick’s levelling in one of the comments<https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/782#issuecomment-504038948> makes sense:

  *   Bronze: EITHER provide AD or transcript
  *   Silver: provide AD and transcript
  *   Gold: Provide live transcript or live AD.

I raise this as if you read the thread, you’ll see how the levels impacted the drafting of the guidelines, and I think we’ll have a similar (or more complex?) dynamic for the scoring in Silver, and how methods are drafted.

Kind regards,

-Alastair

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