Re: Question: Real use of WCAG Conformance Logos

Karl,

thanks for the URI to your page.

Your remark is of course valid. I.e., when I naively suggested that a 
simple syntactic check of pages would be enough, is actually not enough, 
as it fails to distinguish between
    (1) "claiming conformance via the logo" and
    (2) "making a reference to the logo"
I.e. in (1), the logo is making a statement  about the page, while in 
(2), the page is making a statement about the logo.

So a little more subtle approach should be taken. Perhaps a manual 
inspection of a random selection of the pages that have these logos, to 
determine  the proportions of the two categories above.

And thanks Judy for also hinting at how available search engines can 
provide (albeit approximate) answers to many of our questions about 
"demographics" of the web.

Regards,

/olle

Karl Hebenstreit, Jr. wrote:

> Actually, some of these sites are refering to the W3C Conformance 
> Logos, rather than necessarily claiming to be compliant at a 
> particular level.
> I'm hoping next month to be able to revisit my old site and start 
> updating or re-creating some of the content, maybe as part of a blog. 
> Karl
>
> Karl Hebenstreit, Jr. wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't now if anyone has done a formal statistical study, but I had 
>> developed a page on my old site  -- the Google links still function.
>> http://w3.gsa.gov/web/m/old_cita.nsf/RefLib/WCAGLogos
>>
>>
>>
>> Olle Olsson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> [Is this a good forum for this kind of question?]
>>>
>>> Question:
>>> I was wondering whether there is any statistics available on the use 
>>> of the WCAG Conformance Logos ?
>>>   I.e. to what extent are these logos used [making claims about WCAG 
>>> conformance]
>>>   Presumably this could be detected by pure syntactical scans of web 
>>> sites/pages
>>>
>>> Non-Question::
>>> A different question, of more importance though, concerns statistics 
>>> on *actual* conformance to WCAG?
>>>   I.e. are sites/pages conformant, *regardless* of whether there is 
>>> a claim or not.
>>>   This cannot be done syntactically [se note in: 
>>> http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1-Conformance.html ]
>>> But we leave this for the moment.
>>>
>>> So is there any data on  the Question above? Perhaps broken down 
>>> into types of sites (perhaps gov, edu, com, mil, ...) and into 
>>> geographical/cultural regions?
>>>
>>> /olle
>>>
>>
>>


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