Email: IBM Comments on WCAG 3.0 Draft (3 - Precision and testability)

[cwadamsoforacle]

Comment from email: Precision and testability • The spec needs to be more explicit on the guidelines, outcomes and methods whether this is a user agent requirement, operating system requirement, authoring tool requirement, or author requirement.

For example the Editor’s Note in 1.1 about WCAG 3.0 guidelines includes an example method from UAAG (Reflow of captions and other text in context) where it is not clear who (the author, platform owner, browser owner, combination of stakeholders) is responsible for meeting the 7.3 Captions guideline. The standard also needs to address how to meet guidelines that is more explicit of the responsibility or coordination between platform owners (operating system vs user agent).

• There should also be an easy way to “gather” requirements/methods based on their applicability to the user agent, operating system, authoring tool, or authored content. This will help each different application of the standard be easily obtained without having to peruse through every guideline, outcome, and method to find what is applicable or how to do it.

• Has the concept of "accessibility supported" introduced in WCAG 2.1 been removed? Is there a similar concept in WCAG 3? If so, it needs to be more clearly articulated.

[cwadamsoforacle]

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[cwadamsoforacle]

IBM comments on the WCAG 3 FPWD -March 2.docx Forgot to add attachment to original post.

[rachaelbradley]

Broke out answer regarding critical errors to #595