Re: [Minutes] WCAG Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Task Force - Meeting on 12 April 2018

Hi,

Shame I missed the meeting, I was on holiday.

At the ICT Symposium last year a number of us were on a panel together and talked about opening up our test cases to the public.

During the debate, people mentioned that it was too difficult to have a single repository which centrally holds all the test cases; or that needs someone to accept them.

Instead, it might be best to look to create a simple "lightweight" interface format - which simply says when I publish a test case publically on my own site I will make certain that certain information is included with my test case.

This way, we can all write interpreters which enable us to run each others test cases - as we know they adhere to an interface.  I'm using interface in the software specific way - e.g. to be a test case, certain information must be available through known attribute names.

It's all rather simple really - we'd just have to agree some attributes.

The benefits are gigantic...  not least that people will be able to compare tools; but also that false positives in test cases will be identifiable - e.g. if 3 tools disagree on an outcome something must be wrong.

If nothing is to be done through ACT, I think I'll push to set up a short-lifespan interest group for this specific purpose.

Alistair
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Alistair Garrison
Director of Accessibility Research
Level Access

On 12/04/2018, 17:50, "Shadi Abou-Zahra" <shadi@w3.org> wrote:

    Hello,
    
    Minutes of the WCAG Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Task Force 
    teleconference meeting on Thursday 12 April 2018:
      - https://www.w3.org/2018/04/12-wcag-act-minutes

    
    Next meeting: *Thursday 19 April 2018*
    
    Regards,
       Shadi
    
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    Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/

    W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

Received on Monday, 16 April 2018 18:54:44 UTC