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From: Karl Groves
Date: Jun 21, 2006 10:50PM


I was going to comment on that as well.
Implying a percentage of compliance is ignoring the fact that each different
item has a different impact and each "violation" can vary in its severity as
well.
Some violations are mere nuisances whereas others are a complete barrier to
access.


Karl L. Groves
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> Sailesh Panchang
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 10:39 AM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> Subject: RE: [WebAIM] Evaluating accessibility level for managers
>
> 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)
> E-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Stephane Deschamps
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 4:44 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> 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?
>
> --
> Stephane Deschamps
> Paris Web 2006 :
> http://www.parisweb2006.org/
> (qualit