Fwd: Re: EARL 0.95 Available

Interesting summary from Kynn. From the IG list.
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>At 09:05 AM 5/29/2001, Joe Clark wrote:
>>Um... WTF is EARL, OK?
>
>It's a language for making statements about the accessibility of
>something, in a standard machine-readable (and human-displayable)
>way.
>
>For example:
>
>* I could run a program like Bobby or the W3C validator, and get back
>   a report in EARL which records those things Bobby or the validator
>   can measure.
>
>* I could sit down and test a site, and record my results in a format
>   that gets changed into EARL (maybe by a script prompting me for
>   answers).
>
>* I could use a nifty new editor which, on demand, generates an EARL
>   statement about the code it is creating for me.
>
>* I could then combine all of the above EARL statements into a composite
>   and see how the site measures up against various W3C specifications,
>   such as WCAG or XHTML.  Failures to comply could also be noted in
>   EARL as well.
>
>EARL is "just" a common language and syntax for expressing things that
>we current talk about in English, such as "this page is single-A accessible
>and it includes D-links" or "this fails checkpoint 2.1" or "alt text
>exists, but William Loughborough doesn't think they're adequate."
>(The last one is not a tongue-and-cheek joke; EARL, as I understand it,
>does indeed allow for value judgments and identification of who made
>those calls.)
>
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