RE: acceptance criteria for new success criteria

I am happy with this standard 


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In practice, the standard was: "participants in the working group, by consensus, are confident that 8 out of 10 informed evaluators would agree in their application of the proposed success criterion" (across a wide range of cases, I assume, though this last point is usually left implicit). "


All the best

Lisa Seeman

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---- On Thu, 02 Jun 2016 15:43:59 +0300  White<jjwhite@ets.org> wrote ---- 

 
 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 4:57 AM 
 
 
> It may be a minor point, but: I'd prefer language that's a little less...specific. 
> Giving an actual figure of "8 out of 10" gives it a whiff of "it can be proven with 
> hard numbers", sure, but really: if there's ever a disagreement, do we really 
> expect somebody to gather 10 experts, get their opinions, and then make go for 
> the option that had 8 votes? What if it's 5 out of 10...a draw (which is probably 
> why you'd want 9 experts to be able to determine at least majority, barring 
> abstentions). 
 
In practice, the standard was: "participants in the working group, by consensus, are confident that 8 out of 10 informed evaluators would agree in their application of the proposed success criterion" (across a wide range of cases, I assume, though this last point is usually left implicit). 
 
So far as I am aware, no one has empirically tested the extent to which this standard is met by the success criteria that ultimately comprised WCAG 2.0. 
 
 
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