- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:25:01 +1000
- To: Web Content Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I want to raise an issue that emerged from today's meeting. Many of our guidelines apply only to content that meets specific conditions. For example, guideline 1.1 is relevant only to content that includes non-text components. Guideline 2.1 applies only to content that specifies a user interface. There are numerous other examples throughout the document. At present, these conditions are not asserted explicitly in the document. My questions: 1. Should we state directly that content which doesn't have the characteristics assumed by a particular guideline is deemed to have passed, albeit trivially? This would mean for example that if one is claiming conformance for content that has no non-text components, guideline 1.1 level 3 is satisfied, by default as it were? 2. Should we make the conditions under which each guideline/success criterion applies explicit in the text of the guideline or success criterion, or perhaps in a normative, accompanying note? If so, how should this be done? 3. In checklists and granular (metadata) conformance claims, do we need three alternatives for each success criterion, viz., "passed", "not passed" and "not applicable"? This has been discussed previously, with strong suggestions that if a condition presupposed in a success criterion is not satisfied by the content, then the success criterion should be treated as having been met. I don't think consensus was reached as a result of that discussion however, and the issue probably warrants re-consideration as the checklist format is worked out.
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