- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:05:15 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Matt May <mcmay@w3.org>
- Cc: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>, Lisa Seeman <seeman@netvision.net.il>, 'wai-xtech' <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Matt May wrote: >Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >> <quote who="Matt May"> >> >>>5. Conformance reporting mechanisms for WCAG 2 >> >> >> For the most part, EARL is already working for this. Sidar and W3C have >> both produced tools which output the latest version of EARL, and there are >> a number of tools which output earlier versions. > >I'm sorry, you're misunderstanding me. I'm not talking about >evaluations, I'm talking about site-based conformance claims and scope. >There are remaining questions in WCAG, such as what constitutes a >resource, which need to be resolved before EARL becomes an obvious >solution to the WG. That's going to require coordination between WCAG, >ER, and our SemWeb friends. "Use EARL" is not a sufficient answer to >this problem. OK, so that gets to the problem I mentioned on the call, of identifying the thing you are talking about. EARL is quite happy describing anything you can identify with a URI - a component in your Content Management System (this is the level that the IMS and similar folks are using it now), a single Web page, a paragraph in your page, a collection of pages. It is relatively easy to describe "anything produced by the following Web Service" but as you mention there isn't a clearly standardised vocabulary yet. (This has to do with the changes that were introduced to RDF between the original 1999 Recommendation and the new set of Recommendations from this year. A likely candidate is the vocabulary used by n3 tools.) As soon as there is an ER group I look forward to the discussion recommencing. I would suggest that the QA activity at W3C should also be following this. cheers Chaals Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles tel: +61 409 134 136 SWAD-E http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe fax(france): +33 4 92 38 78 22 Post: 21 Mitchell street, FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia or W3C, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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