Re: mission statement

Conforming to the WCAG 1.0 guidelines is defined at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/#Conformance

At 08:52 AM 9/13/00 , Leonard R. Kasday wrote:
>"conforms to guidelines" is not exactly defined: what is defined is 
>conforming to particular compliance levels, A, double A, triple A, or 
>checkpoints.
>
>How about adding word "checkpoints" so it reads like this:
>
>The mission of the Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ER WG) is:
>to make it easier for Web content developers to determine if Web content 
>conforms to checkpoints in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0,
>to make it easier for Web content developers to repair Web content that 
>does not meet WCAG checkpoints.
>
>This more obviously includes tools that focus on a subset of the 
>checkpoints rather than the whole guidelines, e.g. tablin.
>
>Len
>
>At 04:53 PM 9/12/00 -0400, Wendy A Chisholm wrote:
>>Kynn,
>>
>>>There's no such thing as "accessible or not".  Accessibility doesn't
>>>exist in a vacuum -- this should either say "to which audiences the
>>>site is accessible or inaccessible" or "if a Web site is in compliance
>>>with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines."  I think the latter
>>>phrase is closer to the work that's been done.
>>
>>Good comment. The mission statement now reads,
>><blockquote>
>>The mission of the Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ER WG) is:
>>to make it easier for Web content developers to determine if Web content 
>>conforms to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0,
>>to make it easier for Web content developers to repair Web content that 
>>does not conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
>>
>>The working group does this by maintaining a list of existing tools, 
>>developing new tools, and documenting techniques that tools may implement.
>>
>>This work is part of the WAI Technical Activity. The original charter for 
>>this group was approved June 1998.  This work continues the work of that 
>>charter as well as pieces from the Evaluation and Repair Interest Group 
>>charter.  The Interest Group no longer exists.
>></blockquote>
>>
>>> >to make it easier for Web content developers to repair inaccessible 
>>> Web sites.
>>> >The working group does this by maintaining a list of existing tools, 
>>> developing new tools, and documenting techniques that tools may implement.
>>>
>>>Hmm.  Still thinking about this one.
>>Does the above change alleviate your concerns for this one?
>>
>>--wendy
>>--
>>wendy a chisholm
>>world wide web consortium
>>web accessibility initiative
>>madison, wi usa
>>tel: +1 608 663 6346
>>/--
>
>--
>Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D.
>Institute on Disabilities/UAP and Dept. of Electrical Engineering at 
>Temple University
>(215) 204-2247 (voice)                 (800) 750-7428 (TTY)
>http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday         mailto:kasday@acm.org
>
>Chair, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation and Repair Tools Group
>http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/
>
>The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: 
>http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/

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wendy a chisholm
world wide web consortium
web accessibility initiative
madison, wi usa
tel: +1 608 663 6346
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Received on Wednesday, 13 September 2000 10:47:27 UTC