Re: Let's add an approved date field to Failures and Techniques

This is an excellent point "technology relied upon" ... but unfortunately,
a failure based on that for HTML5 or WAI-ARIA cannot get through a vote.


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On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:48 AM, White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org> wrote:

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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk]
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> >
> >But what about failures which are now only failures because there is new
> >technology available now? Which weren't failures previously because the
> >technology wasn't even available?
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> This depends on whether the author is "relying upon" the newer technology
> in order to conform to the Guidelines.
>
> If the author isn't relying upon the newer technology, i.e., the content
> conforms without it, then the new "failures" documented in non-normative
> material won't be applicable, since they're not relevant to conformance.
>
> If the newer technology is relied upon, then the author can use it
> inappropriately - and this may make a difference to conformance, hence the
> new "feailure" cases become relevant.
>
> Thus I think it all depends on the list of technologies relied upon, not
> on dates or other factors.
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