- From: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:36:27 +0200
- To: ERT WG <public-wai-ert@w3.org>
Dear Group, Ref: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2008Sep/0002> From reading some of the POWDER documents, it seems that their work on grouping resources may be very useful for EARL. For example, we may be able to group several resource that share the same HTTP headers. This would however need further discussion and it may complicate things. Unfortunately however, it seems that there is currently no direct method for relating POWDER descriptions to technical standards (such as WCAG) or to testing reports (such as EARL). It also does not provide means to reference the evaluation methodology or complaint mechanisms etc. In Example 2-1 of <http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-dr/> it says: 10 <descriptorset> 11 <ex:color>red</ex:color> 12 <ex:shape>square</ex:shape> 13 <displaytext>Everything on example.com is red and square</displaytext> 14 <displayicon src="http://authority.example.org/icon.png" /> 15 </descriptorset> It seems that any additional descriptions about the assertions need to be provided in separate namespaces. In this case it is in "ex:". However, since one of the use cases for POWDER is certification, it may be important to provide the following optional properties: # <standard> - references a standard or requirement for the certificate # <test-report> - links to test reports, such as EARL (not exclusively) # <methodology> - the process followed to certify (if this is public) # <contact> - a URI for someone to contact or for a complaints system Not sure if all these make sense but at leas the first two seem pretty important to model certificates (more important than an icon to me). Regards, Shadi -- Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ | WAI International Program Office Activity Lead | W3C Evaluation & Repair Tools Working Group Chair |
Received on Monday, 1 September 2008 16:37:02 UTC