- From: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 23:10:50 +0200
- To: Alistair Garrison <alistair.garrison@levelaccess.com>, WCAG ACT TF <public-wcag-act@w3.org>
[removing AGWG list from the thread] Thank you for re-raising this Alistair. I think last week we concluded that we need to continue this discussion. Here is the prior proposal: - https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/task-forces/conformance-testing/wiki/Testing_Resources#Test_case_format_.28explicit_results.29 Here is also the prior ACT TF discussion on this topic: - https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wcag-act/2018Jan/0007 Best, Shadi On 16/04/2018 20:54, Alistair Garrison wrote: > 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 > --- > 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 > > -- > Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ > W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > > > -- 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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