Re: Untestable success criteria

> We've been working on a system to make accessibility guidelines testable and
> it may help in your work.

The assumption here is that all guidelines are *machine*-testable.

> This is still early in the development cycle and I would appreciate any
> feedback you may have.

My feedback is that Chris is ideologically reluctant to accept that some
accessibility guidelines will never be machine-testable. It took hours and
thousands of words of explanation before he would finally reluctantly
conded that colour combinations for colour-normal visually-impaired people
could not be machine-tested.

Of course it's possible to test all accessibility provisions. It would be
very interesting to have multiplatform, standards-compliant tools to
facilitate all kinds of testing-- machine- and human-driven. But if this
is a cover story to twist and deform WCAG into an undifferentiated set of
machine-testable guidelines, we have a problem.

> ----- Original Message -----

Yeah, nice one. 150 lines of forwarded text. Nice.


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  Joe Clark  |  joeclark@joeclark.org
  Author, _Building Accessible Websites_
  <http://joeclark.org/access/> | <http://joeclark.org/book/>

Received on Thursday, 20 November 2003 12:28:46 UTC