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

HI all

I think we need to be really careful here.  I agree with Peter that many
organisations will be drawn to WCAG-EM hoping that it will allow them to
make WCAG conformance claims.  I'd rather not do away with the word
completely, but describe what WCAG conformance actually means (every page,
every point), and how WCAG-EM can assist with checking a sample of pages
(for which theoretically conformance could be claimed for the sample, if
every page of the sample met the level claimed), but that every page of
whole site would need to be brought into line with that claim if someone
wanted to claim full WCAG complilance.

 

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From: Peter Korn [mailto:peter.korn@oracle.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2013 3:36 AM
To: Shadi Abou-Zahra
Cc: Velleman, Eric; public-wai-evaltf@w3.org
Subject: 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#conformanceintr
o



 

 

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