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RE: Evaluating accessibility level for managers

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Jun 21, 2006 6:40PM

Not sure how you calculated the percentages. This is not something suggested
in the WCAG and therefore no method is set out for it. Using percentages
indeed conveys a wrong picture. Certain checkpoints may not apply to your
Web content. Or, how did you account for the number of instances a
particular checkpoint was complied with on a particular Web page? How did
these figure in your percentage?

Sailesh Panchang
Senior Accessibility Engineer
Deque Systems Inc. (www.deque.com)
11180 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite #400,
Reston VA 20191
Phone: 703-225-0380 (ext 105)
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Subject: [WebAIM] Evaluating accessibility level for managers

Hi all,

We're having a problem with how accessibility level is conveyed to managers.

We've tested a site lately, and it conforms to 39% to A and 48% to A+AA.
So, seen from a manager's point of view, it seems that they're better at
AA than at A.

Which could be a problem, because they may eventually be more careful
about some AA criteria which are perhaps more spectacular than basic but
necessary A criteria.

We're afraid that it's not very representative of the overall quality of
the site.

We've tried doing some perequation, like A+AA is computed in such a way
that A criteria weigh twice as much as AA criteria for instance, but it's
not very effective, and I'm not personally very comfortable with 'tweaked'
results. Someone will end up redoing the calculations and could call us
frauds ;)

What do you all think? How do you people convey the idea that A is more
important than AA, and samely that AA is more important than AAA?

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Stephane Deschamps
Paris Web 2006 :
http://www.parisweb2006.org/
(qualit