- From: Chris Ridpath <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:06:34 -0500
- To: "WAI ER List List" <public-wai-ert@w3.org>
- Cc: "Greg Gay" <g.gay@utoronto.ca>, "Silvia Mirri" <mirri@cs.unibo.it>, <muratori@criad.unibo.it>, "Paola Salomoni" <salomoni@cs.unibo.it>
We've been working on assigning accessibility tests for the Italian Stanca Act [1] and I thought we should share this with the ER list. The Stanca act has 22 requirements for web content that wishes to comply with the act. For each requirement we have assigned accessibility tests that will test whether content conforms or not. The assignment of these tests has been in conjunction with several accessibility experts that are familiar with the act but these are still draft. We are hoping that open discussion can help us to reach a final set of tests that will determine conformance to the act. The current list of tests assigned to the Stanca act's 22 requirements can be found here: http://tile-cridpath.atrc.utoronto.ca/acheck/servlet/ShowGuide?name=stanca.xml&newsort=guide&lang=eng Again, this is still draft. Please take a look and let us know your comments. There are several requirements for which we have not assigned tests and these are still to do. There are some contentious requirements in the Stanca act but I think we should congratulate the Italian government in coming out so strongly in favour of making web content accessible. One of the things I found surprising is the requirement for web sites to validate as 'strict'. I believe that valid code is important for accessibility but the strict requirement may be going a bit too far. The 'transitional' doctype may be a more realistic target but that is not what is specified by the act. The question we need to answer is "What are the tests required by the Stanca act?". We should not at this time be trying to change the Stanca act but only interpret what is already there. Cheers, Chris [1] http://www.pubbliaccesso.it/biblioteca/documentazione/guidelines_study/2_technical_reqs.htm
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