Comments on draft of EVAL

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Intro

 

<snip>self-assessment and third-party evaluation</snip>

 

"self -assessment" seems like a one man organization... how about "internal self-assessment"

 

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Representative Sample Step 3

 

There are no example baselines of the number of pages to sample. There is no ballpark and this could result in much variation across evaluators and jurisdictions. I think there are two ways to improve this and provide better guidance that will allow more consistent results across jurisdictions.

1) use the “size of website” criteria as baseline and provide a statistically relevant sample recommendations, such as those used by the Canadian Government in response to the Donna Jodhan Case. 

 

Suggested replacement text:

Size of the website — websites with more web pages typically require a larger sample to evaluate.

<add> For example,the following is a statistically relevant sample size with a 90% confidence level, +/- 10% error. If the website has web pages numbering:

≤60, then a sample of 32

<100 then a sample size of 47

<200 then a sample size of 56

<500 then a sample size of 60

<1000 then a sample size of 64

<5000 then a sample size of 67

>5000 then a sample size of 68

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These are established international statistical sample sizes. Then with that baseline we can talk about increasing (or decreasing) the sample size based on the other factors such as complexity, age, consistency etc... 

 

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There is some implicit mention early on about templates but they seem drop off in this important section where I think they should be included explicitly.

 

How about adding this:

3f templates. Choose a page using each type of template.

 

====Section 4====

 

I think there is some ambiguity between baseline WCAG conformance and good usability/ best practices.

 

Although I almost always include people with disabilities in evaluations, and it often identifies things that can be improved on a web site's accessibility/usability, it rarely results in identifying strict WCAG failures that were not found in the "expert review". I think this sentence could be improved to correct the ambiguity.

 

<snip>"Involving people with disabilities and people with aging-related impairments helps identify additional accessibility barriers that are not easily discovered by the evaluators alone."</snip>

 

Let's leave evaluators out of this sentence.

 

"Involving people with disabilities and people with aging-related impairments provides a clearer picture of how the site actually works for people with disabilities. It can result in a more rounded and useful assessment, and therefore better usability and overall accessibility of the site."

 

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<snip> Note:... In such cases, an evaluator may use an identifier such as "not applicable" to denote the particular situations where Success Criteria are satisfied because no matching content is presented.</snip> 

 

We may want to check with Gregg about this, I think he felt pretty strongly about not having “N/A” on conformance claims, although I don’t personally have particular issue about it. I think we should listen to his rational.

 

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Conformance level satisfied: Level A, AA or AAA as per Step 1.b. Define the Conformance Target;

 

I don't think an organization can claim absolute WCAG conformance based on this methodology, as this phrase appears to indicate. At least not as it is defined currently in WCAG which requires EVERY page to conform.  I think it might expose them to legal action.

I think it should be reported like statistics are reported. 

"We report Conformance Level (Level A, AA, AAA) with a fair degree of confidence, based on the WCAG Evaluation Methodology Framework" with a link to the this document.

The report should also include another bullet.

-Contact information to report any accessibility issues on pages that may not have been evaluated.

 

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Grammar

Currently <add>comma</add> the following performance scoring approaches are provided by this methodology:

 

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