omissions and mistakes in the draft

Hi


Unfortunately some of our very high priority SC because the editors were tracking old versions and thought it was not ready to be published. The coga taskforce and Michael agree that the following two Success criteria are a good enough standard to go into the draft.


1. Manageable blocks is now Short sentencesShort sentences: Statements which instruct a user to make a choice or take an ACTION: have only one instruction per sentence, except when two things have to be done simultaneously; use sentences of no more than 15 words; should have no more than one relative pronoun per sentence. Glossary entry: Relative pronouns are any of the words "who", "whom", "that", "which", "whose", "where", "when" and "why".
2. 
Support personalization (minimum): Contextual information and author settable properties of regions, critical features and important information are programmatically determinable so that personalization is available.




Also the language is old for the plain language SC
Plain language: Provide clear and simple language in instructions, labels, navigational elements, and error messages which require a response to continue, so that all of the following are true.


Simple tense: Use present tense and active voice.  
Simple, clear, and common words: Use the most common 1500 words or phrases or, provide words, phrases or abbreviations that are the most-common form to refer to the concept in the identified context.
Double negatives are not used.
Concrete language: Non-literal language is not used, or can be automatically replaced, via an easy-to-set user setting. All meaning must be retained when non-literal text is replaced.
Instructions: Each step in instructions is identified



New definition 
identified context is defined as  - context and a context specific word frequency list (and glossary) has been identified in an accessibility statement or other known technique. A word frequency list has to be generated from at least 1000 sources from the same context or how ever many pages can reasonably be found
All the best


New exception 
If there are no tools available in the language of the content that identify uncommon words, instructions that are longer then 400 words are exempt unless they directly relate to a critical service.

Lisa Seeman

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