Re: validity levels

Sounds like a pretty good case for an earl:warning

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johannes Koch" <johannes.koch@fit.fraunhofer.de>
To: "ERT group" <public-wai-ert@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:32 AM
Subject: validity levels


> 
> Hi group,
> 
> I thought some moments about the validity levels we currently have in 
> EARL (pass, fail, cannotTell, notApplicable, notTested). There may be a 
> need for another level.
> 
> E.g. there are tools like the W3C CSS validator that produce warnings 
> that do not really effect the overall outcome. If there are no errors, 
> but only warnings, a CSS resource PASSes validation.
> 
> Now, how to represent these warnings in EARL? Should we use earl:pass? 
> Then how to distinguish between real pass assertions and warnings? 
> Should we use earl:cannotTell? IMHO this isn't appropriate either 
> because cannotTell means, the "Assertor can not tell for sure what the 
> outcome of the test is".
> 
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