Re: Aspects of an evaluator

Hi Peter, 

Supporting 1st party assessment is as important to me as supporting 3rd party assessment - which is why I based my proposal on those well documented aspects you would look for in an internal auditor for ISO 9001:2000.

Maybe, for clarity, it should have been 'not associated in their day to day role with' - I think you have read 'associated' in the same light as 'independent'.  

Hope this helps.

Alistair

On 21 Jun 2012, at 19:36, Peter Korn wrote:

> Alistair,
> 
> It wasn't clear to me that this was the outcome of our meeting.  
> 
> Reviewing the EvalTF Work Statement, the first sentence of the Objective reads (emphasis added): "objective of Eval TF is to develop an internationally harmonized methodology for evaluating the conformance of websites to WCAG 2.0, that supports different contexts, such as for self-assessment or third-party evaluation of small or larger websites".
> 
> If the methodology is to support self-assessment, then it cannot define the evaluator as be different from the developer/maintainer/accessibility-expert for the site.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 6/21/2012 10:02 AM, Alistair Garrison wrote:
>> Dear all, 
>> 
>> In today's telecon, we discussed terms like independent when talking about evaluations.  The outcome appeared to be that what was needed was in fact a better definition for 'evaluator'.  
>> 
>> I'm not going to propose the whole definition for 'evaluator', however, just two aspects which we might consider including in the definition:
>> 
>> Aspect 1) (of an evaluator) someone who is not responsible for the accessibility of the website being evaluated.
>> Aspect 2) (of an evaluator) someone who is not associated with developing and maintaining the website or its content.
>> 
>> Thoughts…
>> 
>> All the best 
>> 
>> Alistair
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