Re: automated wcag validation rules

thanks Andrew, appears that they are not in business of producing spec
though.

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SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

On 18 March 2015 at 12:12, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com> wrote:

>  In terms of people looking into this there’s the Automated WCAG
> Monitoring Community Group: https://www.w3.org/community/auto-wcag/
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> *From:* Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 18, 2015 8:03 AM
> *To:* w3c-wai-gl@w3.org; Richard Schwerdtfeger
> *Subject:* automated wcag validation rules
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> Hi all,
>
> had a brief discussion with Rich s about a minumum set of automated
> conformance criteria
>
> Problem: many automated tools claim to test wcag criteria, but there is no
> standardized set (to my knowledge) of conformance criteria rules that can
> be checked using automated software. This has lead to a range of tools
> claiming to test WCAG conformance when in fact some requirements are out of
> step/incorrect.
>
> Has there been any work/discussion on producing a standardized set of
> machine testable wcag2 conformance criteria that any tool claiming to be
> testing wcag conformance can be tested against?
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> Regards
>
> SteveF
>
> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
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