FW: Issues and proposals: conformance claims

Hi,

Please find below a snippet of a mail from Wendy to the WCAG WG. It is a proposal for a possible conformance claim template in WCAG 2.0. How well could we support such a claim in EARL? IMO, this strengthens the case to include a way to "cascade" sub-tests for an overall claim (i.e. "Page X claims Level-A because it passed test-1, test-2, and test-3").

Full message: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005AprJun/0021.html>

Wendy Chisholm wrote:
> A conformance claim includes the following assertions: 
> 
> 
> 1. Required: The date of the claim. 
> 2. Required: The guidelines title/version: "Web Content Accessibility 
> Guidelines 2.0" 
> 3. Required: The URI of the guidelines:       
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-WCAG20-YYYYMMDD/ 
> 4. Required: The conformance level satisfied: "A", "AA", or "AAA" (or 
> 1, 2, or 3??) 
> 5. Required: A list of the specifications used to create the content 
> for which the claim is being made.  This includes markup languages, 
> style sheet languages, scripting/programming languages,  image formats, 
> and multimedia formats.
> 6. Required: For each specification, indication if the technology is 
> "used" or "relied upon" (i.e., if used - the content is usable if that 
> technology is turned off or not supported. if relied upon - the content 
> is not usable if that technology is turned off or not supported)
> 7. Required: Scope of the claim (a uri, list of uris or a regular 
> expression)
> 8. Optional: A list of user agents that the content has been tested on.  
> This should include assistive technologies.
> 9. Optional: Information about audience assumptions or target audience.  
> This could include language, geographic information,  interests or ??? 
> 
> Examples of conformance claims 
> 
> Example 1:  On 13 March 2005,  johnpointer.com  conforms to W3C's WCAG 
> 2.0. Conformance Level A. The specification that this content relies 
> upon is: XHTML 1.0. The specifications that this content uses are: CSS2, 
> Real Video, Real Audio,  MP3, and gif.   This content was tested using 
> the following user agents and assistive technologies: Firefox 1.01 
> (windows, linux), IE 3.0 and 6.0 (windows, mac), Jaws 3.7 and Jaws 6.0 
> (windows), Safari 1.2 (Mac), Opera 7.5 (OSX). 

> Example 2:  On 1 January 2005, "S5: An Introduction" 
> <http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/s5-intro.html> 
> <http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/s5-intro.html>  conforms to W3C's 
> WCAG 2.0. Conformance Level A.  The specification that this content 
> relies upon is: XHTML 1.0 (Strict). The specifications that this 
> content uses are: JavaScript 1.2, CSS2, png, and jpg. 
> 
> Example 3:  On 1 January 2005, "Photo gallery application"
> <http://foo.makeyourownslideshow.com> 
> <http://foo.makeyourownslideshow.com>  conforms to W3C's WCAG 2.0.  
> Conformance Level A.  The specifications that this content relies upon 
> are: XHTML 1.0 (Strict), CSS2, JavaScript 1.2, jpg.  The specification 
> that this content uses is: gif.  The techniques profile that this site 
> uses is, "HTML/ECMAScript for latest browsers."  [Note: This techniques 
> profile is not defined, but it was something that we had talked about. 
> See "Questions and issues" that follow.]

Received on Wednesday, 6 April 2005 09:17:48 UTC