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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Apr 1, 2025 5:16AM

Birkir
I have 3 colleagues that have finished TrustedTester in the past few weeks,
or are currently taking it and haven't heard of issues. I think the system
goes down for maintenance at least monthly, so your people may have hit it
at the wrong time.

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Ryan E. Benson

On Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 7:50 PM Steve Green via WebAIM-Forum <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I hope that the Trusted Tester program has been terminated because it
> mandates a terrible testing methodology that is almost guaranteed to give
> incorrect results. I say "almost guaranteed" because I can't rule out the
> possibility that it might occasionally give accurate results by pure chance.
>
> I would support training that teaches a more accurate methodology, but
> such a course would be much longer, more difficult and more expensive.
> However, that's the cost of doing the job properly.
>
> Steve Green
> Managing Director
> Test Partners Ltd
>
>