- From: Jeanne Spellman <jspellman@spellmanconsulting.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 14:49:41 -0400
- To: Silver Task Force <public-silver@w3.org>, ACT public list <public-act-r@w3.org>
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== Summary == * We examined the format of the draft ACT Rules on Document has Heading for non-repeated content <https://act-rules.github.io/rules/047fe0> and Heading is descriptive <https://act-rules.github.io/rules/b49b2e> and the WCAG3 Method for Relevant Headings <https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG3/2020/methods/relevant-headings/> * We discussed Quantitative and Qualitative tests. We had consensus on the usefulness of quantitative tests and did not agree that qualitative tests were needed. Some members thought that qualitative tests could be carefully defined so that guidance could be given to testers how well an author had done in creating descriptive headings or appropriate alt text. Others thought that the qualitative guidance should be in a Authors Guide, but some thought we could lose the ability to say that bad headings or text alternatives fail. We generally agreed that Outcomes should be less ambiguous than Success Criteria and moved on in the agenda. * We agreed that Methods should include Applicability Statements for precision in the way they are used in the ACT rules. We agreed that Methods can include one or more applicability statements and multiple tests. We need to build some prototypes to test the details of the discussion. * We agreed that both passing and failing rules could potentially be used depending on what is being tested. One proposal was to take some of the data from ACT rules to use in WCAG3 Methods because of extensive overlap. * We discussed whether to use Test Procedures like WCAG2 Techniques or to use Expectations like ACT uses. Expectations are precise statements of outcome of a test allowing an organization to use any way to test that outcome. We agreed that we should have both at different levels. Perhaps the Expectations at the Methods level and the Test Procedures at the HowTo level for beginners. Again we agreed to build some prototypes and evaluate them. Some expressed concern that we were moving too much toward educational. * Next Steps: The Silver Subgroup on Conformance Testing and volunteers (TBD) from ACT would build a Method prototype of the ideas discussed today. == Minutes == https://www.w3.org/2021/05/21-wcag-act-minutes.html == Questions == We are missing that the heading needs to be exposed in the accessibility tree. Also I miss hierarchy of heading levels in our test procedure. [this has been referred to Structured Content subgroup].
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