Email: ITI Comments on First Public Working Draft of W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 (5 - Clear Words)

jspellman commented 3 years ago

Guidelines need to be testable/measurable based on normative information. In some new guidelines such as 7.2 Clear Words this does not appear to be testable based on normative information. In the Methods the tool Simplewriter is listed. There is no attribution for this tool (who owns it?) Instead of recommending a specific tool, WCAG should specify the criteria that should be tested, so others can incorporate it into their current tools or look for a publicly available tool.

jmcsorle commented 3 years ago

Draft Response:

Thank you for your suggestions. In a future draft of WCAG3 we will clarify that the tool is just a “proof-of-concept” and list the underlying rules so they are transparent and so that better tools can be developed.

rachaelbradley commented 2 years ago

New Draft Response: This issue will be fixed in https://github.com/w3c/silver/pull/627 .

While we have made changes to address the issue, the content is not finalized. This content may be updated, replaced, or could be removed in future edits.

w3c / silver

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