Business case credibility review

Hi Sharron,

When you and I discussed the business case draft in July, there were several of my comments that you wanted to put off so as to get the draft out for EOWG review soon. In re-reading through the latest draft, it looks like some were addressed and others have not been addressed yet.

One remaining issue is that some statements seem not adequately supported by the cited reference. Leaving these unaddressed would leave us open to justified negative critique.

Examples are below.[1,2] (I didn't add GitHub issues so as to limit visibility and clutter. Feel free to add GitHub issues for those that you want more EOWG input on, as you wish.)

I am guessing that no one reviewed the references carefully for their support of the statements.

I wonder if an EOWG participant would be good at and willing to do a credibility-review of the statements and references? I'm thinking that Laura might be really good at this.

Let me know if you want me to do anything for next steps on this.

Best,
~Shawn


[1] "Research indicates that an investment in web accessibility is part of an overall strategy that is effective for current business practice." [ref: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bsl.629 ]

 From quick skim, I don't see that that article addresses "web accessibility" at all, and thus people might challenge that it provides credible evidence for the statement.

[2] Google case study based on https://www.fastcompany.com/3060090/how-designing-for-the-disabled-is-giving-google-an-edge.

While the article itself some interesting points, I'm not sure that what is included in the draft is adequate justification for web accessibility, nor are all the statements in the draft are supported by that article. For example, I don't see any mention of driverless cars in the article. (So missing justification that they were originally "meant to support blind people".)

Also, the list is introduced with "Among the innovations that she cites as examples are these:…" Auto complete and voice control are in the article; however, it is not clear that that *she* said those.

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Received on Friday, 7 September 2018 01:52:11 UTC