EARL pointers

The evaluations we've been doing in UA are a good candidate for use
of the ER group's EARL.

See: EARL: Evaluation and Report Language section on

         http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/

 From EARL Intro and FAQ,

     http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/EARL/intro.html

'EARL is a notation for recording and sharing evaluations. In particular,
it allows one to make claims/criticisms/judgements concerning characteristics
of resources, e.g. whether a document or tool conforms to certain criteria.

EARL is non constraining in the range of things that can be evaluated; a
lot like the proverbial "soap box" from which one is free to speak one's
mind without any prior approval from a central authority. It does however
provide a vocabulary to facilitate scoped reports.

In general, an EARL evaluation consists of a context, and then an assertion
which consists of the thing being evaluated, the conformance criteria, and
the validity status.

Evaluation ::= quad (
       under what other conditions -- computing environment, human
              exercising judgement, ad lib.
       what was evaluated -- any referencable scope of resource
       against what criteria -- published or re-usable assessment instrument
              as applicable
       with what conclusion -- outcome, consistent with the conventions of
              instrument
)

For example, contextual information may include information such as creator
details, platform, and so on. The thing being evaluated could be a Web page,
or a tool. The conformance criteria could be something like a WCAG checkpoint
or a syntax rule in a schema, and the validity status could be something as
simple as "pass or fail" or something more granular with, for example, a
certain level of confidence.'

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Regards/Harvey Bingham