Re: Change to Editors Draft

Your suggestion to simply remove "failure" is a good one.

On 31/01/2019, 12:43, "Shadi Abou-Zahra" <shadi@w3.org> wrote:

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    Thanks Alistair. I raised an issue on GitHub and added a suggestion:
      - https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/issues/327

    
    Best,
       Shadi
    
    
    On 31/01/2019 10:37, Alistair Garrison wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > After re-reading the full document
    > (https://pr-preview.s3.amazonaws.com/w3c/wcag-act/pull/322.html) I note
    > one change.  The definition of Atomic Rule includes an idea which
    > conflicts with the “expectation” concept described later.
    >
    > The Atomic Rule definition (copied below for ease) is:
    >
    > */Atomic rules/* describe how to test a specific type of solution. It
    > contains a precise definition of what elements, nodes or other "parts"
    > of a test subject
    > <https://pr-preview.s3.amazonaws.com/w3c/wcag-act/pull/322.html#test-subject> are
    > to be tested, and when the test subject is considered to fail the rule.
    > These rules are to be kept small and /atomic/. This means that atomic
    > rules test a single "failure condition", and do so without using the
    > findings
    > <https://pr-preview.s3.amazonaws.com/w3c/wcag-act/pull/322.html#finding> from
    > other rules.
    >
    > The issue is – atomic rules test a single “failure condition”.  This
    > should be changed to – atomic rules test a “single expected outcome”…
    >
    > Why? If we look at all examples rules we see they all describe positive
    > expected outcomes; definitely not “failure conditions” e.g.
    >
    >  1. Video elements have a transcript
    >  2. Video elements have an audio description
    >  3. Video elements have a description track
    >  4. This rule checks that the HTML page has a title
    >  5. Etc…
    >
    > Yes, a late stage find – but, something which other reviewers would pull up.
    >
    > All the best
    >
    > Alistair
    >
    > Alistair Garrison
    >
    > Director of Accessibility Research
    >
    > Level Access
    >
    
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