- From: Bruce Bailey <bbailey@clark.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:58:47 -0500
- To: "Al Gilman" <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Cc: "David Clark" <dmclark@cast.org>, "WAI IG" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Al, I browsed URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/ looking for archives on a discussion of the merits of a pass/fail accessibility designation. If it's there, I could not find it. Please point me to a few key threads. The best I could was URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/1998Sep/0007.html Which is short and does not support the consensus you suggest. I don't think the stuff on the ER group is old enough. This list only goes back to August. This is AFTER Bobby dropped its star designations. It has not seen much traffic (as compared to the general WAI IG). It is my belief that public online discussion on the merits of discrete rankings has NOT occurred. I have asked (the WAI list) before to be directed to archives of such a debate. (I have also tried, to no avail, to start a new threads about this.) The impression that I am left with is that the "powers that be" (I am not sure who this illuminate group is) reject out of hand a rating system -- despite that this would be greatly favored by majority of us in the trenches! ---------- > From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net> > To: Paul Booth <paul@disinhe.ac.uk>; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org > Subject: Re: When is a web site accessible? > Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 2:08 PM > > The Evaluation and Repair Interest Group mailing list with archives at > <http://lists.w3.org/w3c-wai-er-ig/> has discussed this issue sporadically. > That is the group whose charter relates directly to this issue. An > earlier Rating And Certification group mostly noted the perils of going too > far down the road toward a pass/fail designation without an adequate backup > for the criterion. > > Al
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