- From: Lynne Rosenthal <lynne.rosenthal@nist.gov>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 07:43:10 -0400
- To: www-qa-wg@w3.org
As Karl reminded us, we have 2 Principles that are dependent on a Good Practice. This complicates how we describe conformance to SpecGL. Since this is SpecLite, it would be great to have a simple, straightforward conformance statement - i.e., To conform, implement all the Principles. Thinking about this, I propose that we modify the 2 conditional Principles so that regardless of whether you implement the GP, you would implement the Principle. The way to do this is to include in the Principle itself, the alternative of not doing the Principle - e.g., skip this principle if you don't subdivide. I can think of 2 ways to accomplish this (1) As done in UAAG, have a normative exclusion statement or (2) indicate applicability in the phrasing of the principle. For example: Current Principle: Indicate which subdivisions are mandatory for conformance Proposal: a) If the technology is subdivided, then indicate which subdivisions are mandatory for conformance, else skip this Principle. b) Indicate which subdivisions are mandatory for conformance. Normative exclusion: this Principle is only applicable if the technology is subdivided. (the normative exclusion would be in the same 'box' as the Principle) I'm going to assume that we do one of these suggestions or something similar - that way conformance to SpecGL can be very simple. --lynne
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