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From: Stephane Deschamps
Date: Jun 21, 2006 7:20PM

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