Re: EARL in Page Valet

(this is mainly for Sean following our IRC session, but posted in case
anyone else is following this)

On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Nick Kew wrote:

> (3) I've used predicates (passes|fails) for validation messages, and
>     suspectAgainst for accessibility warnings.  Next step is to
>     generate confidence levels from visval, so we can distinguish
>     between definite problems, and issues flagged for manual inspection.

Update: I've implemented (but not yet installed) this, with three
confidence levels:

	Certain:	definitely fails test
	Likely:		probably fails test
	Maybe:		probably passes but should check

Using these I will also generate an assertion {pass|fail} the
overall checkpoint (eg WCAG-AA):

pass with high confidence if there are NO warnings
pass with low confidence if there are only MAYBE warnings
fail with medium(?) confidence if there are LIKELY warnings
fail with certainty if there are CERTAIN warnings

I'll think about putting this in the form too; perhaps permit suppression
of MAYBE messages in the HTML versions.

-- 
Nick Kew

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Received on Sunday, 3 February 2002 07:27:12 UTC