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

Hi Peter-

I completely agree. I have yet to find a fully conforming website in my evaluations, except for one I made back in WCAG 1.0 days.  :^)

I was thinking, though, that providing several sample statements could help illustrate what we meant by conformance and non-conformance.

Mike

From: Peter Korn [mailto:peter.korn@oracle.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 3:35 PM
To: Elledge, Michael (M.S.)
Cc: public-wai-evaltf@w3.org
Subject: Re: Change title of Conformance in the context of WCAG-EM

Mike,

We may well, occasionally, find that all of the pages in a sampling conform.  Much more likely, folks using WCAG-EM may find that at most a subset of the sampled pages conform.  But I expect the vast majority of the time, folks applying WCAG-EM will find problems (however small) in most of the sampled pages.

Does anyone in this TF have experience to the contrary in the considerable experience we collectively have evaluating websites?

So I believe the emphasis of any examples should be in how to report the most common realities out there.  And not the theoretical perfection we are all still yearning to find actually exists in the wild.


Regards,

Peter
On 9/12/2013 6:54 AM, Elledge, Michael (M.S.) wrote:
Hi all-

I wonder if this issue can be addressed by the wording of a conformance claim. Just as people will be looking to us for the method for evaluating webpages/websites according to WCAG 2.0, they will also look for the appropriate wording to use. We may want to consider referencing Section 5.b and providing clear statements they can use, such as:

WCAG 2.0 Level AA Conformance: All pages
WCAG 2.0 Level AA Conformance: Sample-15 of 150 pages

Mike

Mike Elledge
Usability Specialist
Creative Design and Usability (CDU)
Ford Motor Company
313-390-4853


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