- From: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 09:56:00 +0200
- To: "Schnabel, Stefan" <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>, public-wcag-act-comments@w3.org
Many thanks for your comment, Stefan. It has been raised an issue here: - https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/issues/221 Regards, Shadi On 05/07/2018 09:49, Schnabel, Stefan wrote: > Section “13. Accessibility Support”: > > “Because of this, ACT Rules are not necessarily applicable in all test > scenarios. For instance, a web page that has to work in assistive > technologies that have no WAI-ARIA [WAI-ARIA] > <https://www.w3.org/TR/act-rules-format/#biblio-wai-aria> support, > wouldn’t be tested with an ACT Rule that relies on WAI-ARIA support, > since this could lead to false positive results.” > > This is not understandable without further examples or rewording > especially what “false positive results” would mean. > > Concealment does not improve things. > > I mean, shouldn’t the rule set actively **encourage** the USE of > WAI-ARIA instead of doing protectionism for older AT and user agents? > > Of course, respective rule messaging should be flagged accordingly. > > * Stefan > -- Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ Accessibility Strategy and Technology Specialist Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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