- From: Detlev Fischer <detlev.fischer@testkreis.de>
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 20:16:00 +0100
- Cc: Eval TF <public-wai-evaltf@w3.org>
Yes, it's true that there is still ambiguity whether WCAG-EM can underpin? support? a conformance claim for a site, and the wording needs to be made consistent. When evaluating sites, it is so rare to find one without issues that the use case "Using WCAG-EM to establish a conformance claim" has never bothered me so much. For us, it has always been more a case of finding issues, getting devs to fix them, and usually still finding some issues in the final test (but then, our German scheme does not work according to full pass/fail conformance since we use a graded ranking scheme). To me, it just appears that the normative text clearly ties conformance to the page level: "Conformance is defined only for Web pages. However, a conformance claim may be made to cover one page, a series of pages, or multiple related Web pages" .. which to me still implies that all those pages have been tested. So, on the level of site, you may *aim* for, say, Level AA conformance, but not *claim* conformance. David wrote: > I based my comment on Section 5. Provide a statement > <snip>... Conformance level satisfied: Level A, AA or AAA as per Step 1.b. Define the Conformance Target;...</snip> > > To me this is a clear statement that a level is claimed to be satisfied. If this is contradicted elsewhere in the document, then I think it needs to be addressed. I think my suggestion addresses it. > > "Conformance Level (Level A, AA, AAA) is claimed with a fair degree of confidence, based on the WCAG Evaluation Methodology Framework" with a link to the EM document. In addition include another bullet which is the Contact information to report any accessibility issues. -- Detlev Fischer testkreis - das Accessibility-Team von feld.wald.wiese c/o feld.wald.wiese Thedestraße 2 22767 Hamburg Tel +49 (0)40 439 10 68-3 Mobil +49 (0)1577 170 73 84 Fax +49 (0)40 439 10 68-5 http://www.testkreis.de Beratung, Tests und Schulungen für barrierefreie Websites
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