Re: Change title of Conformance in the context of WCAG-EM

Shadi,

Whether or not we use the word "conformance" in the title/sub-title of 
this section, I do believe it is important to address the issue head on: 
that many will be looking for WCAG-EM to describe how to assess "WCAG 
conformance" of an entire website or web application. So I believe we 
cannot banish the word "conformance" from the document.  Rather, I think 
we need to expressly observe what WCAG conformance is, and why WCAG-EM 
is not (and cannot) describe a mechanism for evaluating that for an 
entire website / web application.

And as part of that, we would then describe what we ARE doing, give it a 
name (that doesn't include "conformance"), etc.


Peter

On 9/9/2013 7:41 AM, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> I'd prefer if we could avoid using the word conformance at all. We do 
> not (for good reasons) define conformance with WCAG-EM.
>
> I don't have a specific wording suggestion but I can't help to wonder 
> about the relationship between this section and the existing "Scope of 
> this document" section. Maybe these sections can be combined, or this 
> text can be included as a sub-section of the scope section?
>
> Best,
>   Shadi
>
>
> On 9.9.2013 15:38, Velleman, Eric wrote:
>> For discussion: In the current proposal, the title of the new section 
>> ("Conformance in the context of WCAG-EM") can be understood as 
>> redefining WCAG and that is not the intent. We could change to:
>> - "Issues of conformance" or
>> - "WCAG-EM conformance output" or
>> - "Conformance in the context of Evaluation" or
>> - "Your title here" :-)
>>
>> This discussion addresses: 
>> http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/conformance/ED-methodology-20130903#conformanceintro
>>
>>
>

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