Re: rulesets -- again

Hi Christophe,

Christophe Strobbe wrote:
> 
> Hi Shadi,
> 
> At 19:20 11/02/2009, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote:
>> Hi Christophe,
>>
>> An issue with Rulesets.xml: it does not have WCAG 2.0 Principles, and 
>> I believe it is possible to have Techniques (therefore Test Samples) 
>> for such requirements.
> 
> In order to include principles in Rulesets.xml, I would need to change 
> the Rulesets schema. This is not a problem, but WCAG 2.0 currently 
> doesn't have techniques directly under principles. (It also doesn't have 
> Understanding docs for principles.) Currently, WCAG 2.0 has techniques 
> for success criteria and guidelines, and these are covered by the 
> current Rulesets.

OK, you are right. Thanks for clarifying.


> If the Understanding and Techniques documents were changed to include 
> techniques directly under principles, there would be no way to link to 
> them from WCAG 2.0 itself without changing the document, which would 
> trigger another cycle of WCAG 2.0 reviews etc...

Oh please! Don't even think such a thought... ;)


>> Also, it would be good to use the actual WCAG 2.0 fragments (such as 
>> #media-equiv) for the IDs, so that it is easier to construct URIs (now 
>> that WCAG is stable, using the fragments should be OK). It also allows 
>> tools to bypass the rulesets.xml if they only want to identify the 
>> requirement.
> 
> That shouldn't be difficult; it's just a matter of "find and replace" 
> with a fairly straightforward regular expression, because the end of 
> each ruleset URL already contains the corresponding WCAG 2.0 fragment 
> identifier.

OK, thanks. That will make my life much easier.


Thanks,
   Shadi

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Received on Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:53:57 UTC