Re: Help needed with numbering success criteria for WCAG 2.1

Hi Josh,

I would be interested in this activity. I have some thoughts on this
already (I know, shocking huh?), but I'm also interested to hear other's
ideas as well. Do you envision this as an asynchronous activity done mostly
via the wiki, or do you anticipate a separate conference call (or 3) to do
the deep dive here?

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 12:57 PM, josh@interaccess.ie <josh@interaccess.ie>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We need to think about how we will number success criteria for WCAG 2.1.
> We would like to ask for volunteers to look at already-proposed SC and
> spend some time thinking about how they might fit into a new version and
> propose a few options with the pros and cons for each.  We would like to
> discuss this on the July 12 or July 19 call.
>
> Points raised already include:
>
>    - People are familiar with the existing forms of the success criteria,
>    so we need to decide whether to keep existing SC text as it currently
>    stands and add additional SC to add to any given SC, or if we feel that it
>    may be better to modify the SC text itself.
>    - We may have new Guidelines as well as new success criteria.
>    - Some changes may include keeping SC text the same but changing the
>    level of the SC (e.g. From AAA to AA)
>    - We may add SC that are at level A, AA, or AAA.
>    - It will be important to think about testing and reporting tools in
>    this process – will the options offered have positive or negative impact on
>    the ability of tools to test and report on conformance?
>    - There is an implied structure to the SC in WCAG 2.0 in that all of
>    the level A SC’s are the low-numbered items under each GL, AA are next, and
>    so on.  If any AAA SC’s move to AA or if any AA SC’s move to A then we will
>    be disrupting that implied order.  This make need to be ok, but is just
>    another consideration.
>
> So all these things need to be considered carefully. A simple wiki page
> with different options and the discussion of the pros and cons of each will
> be a sufficient deliverable for this investigation. Andrew has  set up a
> page with the basic structure for this purpose, with some options:
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/WCAG_2.1_SC_Numbering
>
> Anyone volunteers for working on this? With a view to making a
> recommendation to the group and facilitating a discussion on the
> findings, on the July 12th or 19th?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew, Josh, and Michael
>



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