- From: Carlos A Velasco <Carlos.Velasco@fit.fraunhofer.de>
- Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 13:07:07 +0200
- To: Carlos Iglesias <carlos.iglesias@fundacionctic.org>
- Cc: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>, public-wai-ert@w3.org
Hi Carlos, Carlos Iglesias wrote: > ... > > <blockqoute> > Scoping of conformance claims. > Conformance claims can be limited, or "scoped," to apply to only some > parts of a Web site. Scoping by URI to exclude sections of a site is > allowed so that authors can make claims for just some parts of a site. > Example 3 above is a scoped conformance claim. > ... > Example 3: On 21 June 2007, http://example.com/nav and > http://example.com/docs conform to W3C's WCAG 2.0, Conformance Triple-A. > </blockqoute> > > Apparently they are referring to a whole directory just by the base URI > (they talk about parts, not documents or Web units) i.e. applying the > "Directory" Scope concept. May the force be with them! And what happens when a delivery unit (just resisting to use Web unit for the moment) has a CSS like http://example.com/css/example.css? It is in scope or not? > Similary, in the first example: > > <blockqoute> > Example 1: On 23 March 2005, http://www.wondercall.example.com conforms > to W3C's WCAG 2.0, Conformance Level A. > </blockqoute> > > In this case, they are apparently referring to a whole subdomain just > namin the base URI And what about a CGI script in http://www.example.com/cgi? Belongs or not? > It could be very interesting if somebody from the WCAG WG could clarify > whether it was the intention of the examples or not. Although I am also interested, I still think conformance claims are something for which EARL might be used as support information, but not as the claim itself or, like a blanket statement. > And also (from the same location): > > <blockqoute> > Conformance claims apply to Web units, and sets of Web units. > </blockqoute> > > And the "Web Unit" definition [1] > > <blockqoute> > A collection of information, consisting of one or more resources, > intended to be rendered together, and identified by a single Uniform > Resource Identifier (such as URLs) > ... > Example 2: A Web page including all embedded images and media. > </blockqoute> > > This seems to be the same concept I was naming as the "WebPage" Scope > [2] In fact, it is a bastard son of a delivery unit. regards, carlos -- Dr Carlos A Velasco - http://access.fit.fraunhofer.de/ Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik FIT [Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT)] Barrierefreie Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie für Alle Schloss Birlinghoven, D53757 Sankt Augustin (Germany) Tel: +49-2241-142609 Fax: +49-2241-1442609
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