Call for Review: Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.0 First Public Working Draft

Dear Auto-WCAG'ers

The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG WG) has published a First
Public Working Draft of Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules
Format 1.0:
https://www.w3.org/TR/act-rules-format/

*Overview*

The Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.0 specifies a
common format for accessibility test rules, and how to write test
procedures for quality assurance. It facilitates harmonization of
accessibility testing approaches, and helps organizations to better
document and share their testing methods. It primarily addresses developers
of automated and semi-automated evaluation tools, but also supports manual
evaluation procedures.

*Comments*

To comment, the Working Group requests input be filed as GitHub issues at:
 https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/issues/

Please create new issues for your comments, putting each separate topic
into a separate issue. If it is not feasible to file issues in this tool,
you can also submit comments by email to:
 public-wcag-act-comments@w3.org

The Working Group requests comments on this draft be filed by 5 May 2017.
The Working Group plans to publish updated Working Drafts frequently over
the course of 2017 to incorporate input received and continued review of
proposals.

*About the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group*

The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is the new name for the former
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. This name reflects a
more generic focus in order to bring together and find synergies among work
that formerly took place in separate Working Groups. More information about
the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is available from its home page:
 https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/

In addition to public comments, the Working Group relies on work from its
dedicated participants. If you have availability and expertise to
contribute to this effort, you might consider joining the group:
 https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/participation

*URI*

The first URI above goes to the latest version of the document. The "dated"
version of this draft is: <https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/WD
-act-rules-format-1.0-20170406> The difference between these URIs are
explained in Referencing and Linking to WAI Guidelines and Technical
Documents at: <https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/linking.html>

Regards,
Andrew Kirkpatrick, Accessibility Guidelines WG Chair,
Joshue O Connor, Accessibility Guidelines WG Chair,
Wilco Fiers, ACT TF Facilitator,
Mary Jo Mueller, ACT TF Facilitator,
Michael Cooper, Accessibility Guidelines WG W3C Staff Contact,
Shadi Abou-Zahra, ACT TF W3C Staff Contact




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*Wilco Fiers*
Senior Accessibility Engineer - Co-facilitator WCAG-ACT - Chair Auto-WCAG