Re: Assessment outcomes

I'd do this differently. The idea is that you make a property called
nick:accept - it is generally a subclass of earl:fail, because the implied
result is that the checkpoint has not been met, but in your reporting you
treat it as you treat an earl:pass.

This leaves you with earl:cannotTell for your proposed Review, and earl:fail
for your proposed repair property. And declaring the schema like that means
that your results are readily interoperable with others - nick:acceptIt might
be considered fine in the reporting logic for some checkpoints.

This strikes me as similar to Hixie's desire to subclass fail according to
whether it was a recorded bug that caused the problem, or consequent on
something else, or a catastrophic failure, etc...

my 2 bits

Chaals

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Nick Kew wrote:

>
>
>Someone mentioning EARL prompts me to post this ...
>
>In the course of developing Site Valet Enterprise Edition 2.0,
>I've integrated a full accessibility audit trail.  Pages will be
>assessed by an automatic agent, and may (or must, according to
>local policy) then be reassessed by a human.
>
>For the AccessValet desktop tool, it is sufficient to generate
>a result (Pass/Fail/Unknown/unchecked) and a separate conclusion.
>But for the sitewide database and audit trail, what is required
>is a single-word status to appear in query results, etc.  I'm
>currently using a slightly different vocabulary, that doesn't
>fit as well as (IMO) it should with EARL:
>
> * Pass
>	No problems with that one
> * Accept
>	An informed decision not to comply with some part of the
>	guidelines.
> * Review
>	No conclusion has been reached and the page should be reviewed.
> * Repair
>	The page has been reviewed and repairs have been identified.
>	A much more positive thing than "Fail" to say to users!
>
>These are supported by more detailed reports equivalent to the
>Executive Summary from the desktop product.  But should I be concerned
>about departing from EARL vocabulary in the above?
>
>
>
>--
>Nick Kew
>

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