- From: Chris Ridpath <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:30:11 -0400
- To: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>, "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org>
This sounds fine to me. After evaluating and/or repairing, the tool would give the user a rating. The rating is given according to the simple rules at the WAI site: http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/#Conformance Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org> To: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 12:28 PM Subject: Bottom Line Rating > I'd like to propose a simple way to add a bottom line rating as follows. > Basically, it just asks the user to apply manual checks, and then applies > the A, AA, AAA definitions in the guidelines to the "web site". I don't > think this is particularly new, it's just a codification of what most of us > have assumed anyway, with maybe a few extra details. > > It could be part of the ER Techniques document > > http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/docs/Implementation.html > > or a separate statement. If we can quick consensus, I'd suggest putting in > the ER Techniques document. If people want to thing about this a lot more, > we can issue it as a separate statement to avoid any delays in the ER > Techniques Doc. > > Len > > --------- > > The tool shall give the user the option to manually check off all items on > the "web site" that require manual checking. Irrelevant items shall be > omitted (e.g. if there is not audio or video, manual checking of the > textual equivalents is irrelevant. This will require an affirmative action > by the user, such as use of checkboxes. > > The tool shall use this information together with the automatic checkings > to give the page an A, AA, or AAA rating, per the guideline definitions > (viz. does the "web site" satisfied all priority 1, 1+2, 1+2+3 checkpoints > respectively). > > "Web Site", by default, shall mean a user-defined "home page", and all > pages that can be reached by any series of browser actions that keep the > user in the home page directory, subdirectory, sub-sub directory, etc. > > The user shall be able to add or remove pages from that "web site" definition. > > ------------- > > If the user does not use the manual checkoff procedure at all, the tool > shall make a statement equivalent to one of the following: > > a. "This site is not accessible." > > b. "This site might be accessible. Manual checks are needed to properly > gauge accessibility." > > The word "might" should be <strong>. > > If the user chooses to do just priority 1 or 1+2 checkpoints one of the > following statements or equivalent shall be issued: > > c. "This site has at least an A accessibilty rating. Manual checks are > needed to see if it passes the higher AA or AAA standards" > > d. "This site has at least an AA accessibilty rating. Manual checks are > needed to see if it passes the higher AAA standard" > > Both c and d assume of course that the appropriate manual and automatic > checks are passed. > ------- > Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. > Universal Design Engineer, Institute on Disabilities/UAP, and > Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering > Temple University > > Ritter Hall Annex, Room 423, Philadelphia, PA 19122 > kasday@acm.org > (215) 204-2247 (voice) > (800) 750-7428 (TTY)
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