- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <po@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:46:34 -0600
- To: "'GL - WAI Guidelines WG'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
This is a proposal from the editors that we remove the priorities from the guidelines and just have priorities on the techniques. RATIONALE * We have 17 guidelines at the present time. Only four of which are priority two and none of which are priority three. * The guidelines themselves aren't assigned a priority based upon their merit. They, in fact, inherit their priority as being whatever the highest priority of the technique that is listed under them. The result is that it is not entirely clear why one guideline would have a priority one while another which sounds about the same would have a priority two. We also have situations where all of the techniques underneath the priority are priority two except for one. As a result, the entire guideline ends up with a priority one. We also have one priority where it is listed as a priority two, but it should probably be a priority one in many cases. As a result, we would like to suggest that we remove the priorities from the guidelines and just have it on the techniques. This would also remove the paragraph immediately after the description of the priorities, which awkwardly tries to describe why both the guidelines and the techniques have priorities. We will be releasing a new version of the guidelines later this afternoon. In that version we have not removed the priority on the guidelines. There has been some re-organization and consolidation (see separate note to follow). Please look over this version and see whether or not it looks as if we would do just as well (or better) to remove the priorities from the guidelines and just maintain them on the strategies. Thanks much. The Editors -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Human Factors Dept of Ind. Engr. - U of Wis. Director - Trace R & D Center Gv@trace.wisc.edu, http://trace.wisc.edu/ FAX 608/262-8848 For a list of our listserves send "lists" to listproc@trace.wisc.edu
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