Re: Principle 4 - Robust (was Re: Help needed with numbering success criteria for WCAG 2.1)

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Katie Haritos-Shea
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On Jun 26, 2016 7:12 PM, "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote:

> I have mentioned this to Josh off-list, and he suggested I bring this up
> to the wider group: as part of some recent thinking I put together around
> some aspects of the Mobile TF work, I'd like to put forward that "Principle
> 4 - Robust" - which currently is laid out to cover what would be
> "programmatic robustness" - could benefit with being expanded/widened in
> its scope to allow for further SCs that deal with slightly different
> aspects of robustness, such as content/applications being able to adapt to
> different screen orientations/viewport sizes/etc (although as I'm writing
> this, I'm pondering if this is actually more something that falls under
> "Principle 1 - Perceivable").
>
> https://github.com/w3c/Mobile-A11y-Extension/issues/2
>
> Any thoughts appreciated.
>
> P
>
> On 25/06/2016 18:57, 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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