Acceptance Criteria for proposals for new Success Criteria

Group,
The WCAG group also reviewed proposed criteria for proposals for new or changed SCs for WCAG 2.1.

These criteria are more of a checklist for task forces submitting proposals and provides details of what the WG is looking for in order to have enough information to review proposals. If pieces are missing, proposals will be returned to the submitter for completion prior to being resubmitted.

The criteria are:

Each proposed SC is provided on its own page, and that page (location of the page TBD, likely on GitHub) contains:

  1.  The SC text
     *   If suggesting a wording change to an existing success criteria, write the complete SC text and indicate the changes by surrounding new text with "@@". For example (just an example), "1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum): The visual presentation of @@text, images of text, and icons@@ has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1, except for the following: (Level AA)".
  2.  Indication of any suggested glossary definitions or changes.
  3.  What Principle and Guideline it falls within.
  4.  A description of what the intent of the SC is, including what users benefit from the content successfully addressing it.
  5.  Clear information about how the proposal will benefit users, along with justification and evidence of the benefits.
  6.  Description of how this SC can be tested.
  7.  Possible technique titles which could be used to satisfy the SC (just the title).


Please comment if you feel like something on this list needs to be changed/clarified, and if you think that other items are needed and should be added to the list.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Standards and Accessibility
Adobe

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