Objection to the deletion of F69

Hi WCAG WG,

I learned that after James Nurthen had devised a technique that shows  
failure of content to scale under page zoom, the discussion has now  
concluded that F69 should be simply dropped.

 From an evaluation standpoint, the failures are of critical  
importance since they do not come with the usual disclaimer that  
"failure to conform does not mean that the SC is not met"  - a  
statement that we find under nearly (?) all tests in techniques,  
making them difficult to use in a conclusive evaluation procedure.

So I propose to think twice before deleting failures that provide at  
least *some* measure of assessing conformance to success criteria. I  
can find no argument why the proposed new example for F69
http://jnurthen.users.sonic.net/resize.html

..is unsuitable to demonstrate a failure of supporting page zoom.  It  
'works' in several browsers that I tried it in.

Regards,
Detlev

Quoting Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>:

> Minutes of the 10 November 2011 WCAG meeting are posted to
> http://www.w3.org/2011/11/10-wai-wcag-minutes.html and copied below.
>
>
>   Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Teleconference
>
>
>     10 Nov 2011
>
> See also: IRC log <http://www.w3.org/2011/11/10-wai-wcag-irc>
>
>
>     Attendees
>
> Present
>     Katie_Haritos-Shea, Bruce_Bailey, Michael_Cooper, Adam_Solomon,
>     Andrew_Kirkpatrick, Loretta_Guarino_Reid, Marc_Johlic, jongund,
>     James_Nurthen, Gregg_Vanderheiden
> Regrets
> Chair
>     Loretta_Guarino_Reid
> Scribe
>     AWK
>
>
>     Contents
>
>     * Topics <http://www.w3.org/2011/11/10-wai-wcag-minutes.html#agenda>
>          1. 1. Issue LC-2513: Conflict between alternative options 1-4
>             and F69
>             <http://www.w3.org/2011/11/10-wai-wcag-minutes.html#item01>
>          2. Data table requirements
>             <http://www.w3.org/2011/11/10-wai-wcag-minutes.html#item02>
>     * Summary of Action Items
>       <http://www.w3.org/2011/11/10-wai-wcag-minutes.html#ActionSummary>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> <trackbot> Date: 10 November 2011
>
> <MichaelC> Website Accessibility Evaluation Methodology
> <http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/methodology/>
>
>
>       1. Issue LC-2513: Conflict between alternative options 1-4 and F69
>
> <MichaelC> scribe: AWK
>
> <adam> i am working on my mic - cant hear in the meantime
>
> <scribe> *ACTION:* jamesn to write new technique for 1.4.4 failure for
> CSS related to failure related to zoom. [recorded in
> http://www.w3.org/2011/11/10-wai-wcag-minutes.html#action01]
>
> <trackbot> Created ACTION-166 - Write new technique for 1.4.4 failure
> for CSS related to failure related to zoom. [on James Nurthen - due
> 2011-11-17].
>
> *RESOLUTION: delete F69 and revise response to 2513 to reflect that
> decision.*
>
>
>       Data table requirements
>
> <Loretta> http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/20111110misc/results
>
> <Loretta> http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20101014/H51
>
> *RESOLUTION: Discussion of three table questions with Jon G resulted in
> his understanding how the WG interprets WCAG and tables in 1.3.1*
>
>
>     Summary of Action Items
>
> *[NEW]* *ACTION:* jamesn to write new technique for 1.4.4 failure for
> CSS related to failure related to zoom. [recorded in
> http://www.w3.org/2011/11/10-wai-wcag-minutes.html#action01]
>
> [End of minutes]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Minutes formatted by David Booth's scribe.perl
> <http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/%7Echeckout%7E/2002/scribe/scribedoc.htm>
> version 1.136 (CVS log <http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2002/scribe/>)
> $Date: 2011/11/10 23:06:45 $
>
>
> --
>
> Michael Cooper
> Web Accessibility Specialist
> World Wide Web Consortium, Web Accessibility Initiative
> E-mail cooper@w3.org <mailto:cooper@w3.org>
> Information Page <http://www.w3.org/People/cooper/>
>
>



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