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

> 2. Best practices  (common ways to pass)

Currently common ways to pass are sufficient techniques and I like that term.  Best practices like advisory techniques in the WCAG context as I understand them may go above a success criteria and may not always fully address a success criteria in all situations.

Jonathan


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From: White, Jason J [mailto:jjwhite@ets.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 1:27 PM
To: Alastair Campbell; Gregg Vanderheiden
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Subject: RE: Let's add an approved date field to Failures and Techniques



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alastair Campbell [mailto:acampbell@nomensa.com]


>Perhaps with a little more obvious structure? On the call just now I 
>suggested we could have four levels:
>
>1. Techniques (definitely passes, quite specific) 2. Best practices 
>(common ways to pass) 3. Warnings (common ways that pages don’t pass, 
>but don’t automatically fail.) 4. Failures (common ways that pages 
>definitely fail, quite specific).


I like the proposal.

>
>I’m not sure there’s much we can do about Governments requiring 
>techniques or seeing every non-pass as a failure, that would be best 
>tackled by pushing the idea of functional performance vs requirements.

I also think there's a definite limit to the extent to which this working group should design documents in ways that seek to prevent misinterpretation or misapplication. Clarity and precision are important, but beyond those measures, I think the task of educating people (governments included) lies outside our scope.


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