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From: Peter Shikli
Date: Wed, Aug 30 2017 8:24AM
Subject: Remediation of Substantial Pages of Large Websites
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A government agency would like to achieve a level AA Rating for their
website per WCAG 2.0.  Officially, I believe that means all their web
pages would need to each meet a level AA Rating.  They have over 10,000
pages, far too many to analyze and remediate.  The vast majority are
archival pages such as meeting minutes.

With a website visitation report, I can identify the pages receiving
let's say 90% of the public visits, perhaps 100 or so pages.  If we
bring those pages to a AA rating, could we claim the website has a AA
Rating because a substantial number of web pages have that rating?

If not, can you refer me to WCAG guidelines for making large websites
accessible?

Thanks,
Peter Shikli

From: Detlev Fischer
Date: Thu, Aug 31 2017 12:10AM
Subject: Re: Remediation of Substantial Pages of Large Websites
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WCAG conformance can only be stated for individual fully evaluated pages (including their states). I know this is looking out of sync with current web dev trends.
You may want to look at the WCAG evaluation methodology instead https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-EM/#step5
It describes a sampling approach to cover large sites.
Best, Detlev

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> Am 30.08.2017 um 16:24 schrieb Peter Shikli < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >:
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> A government agency would like to achieve a level AA Rating for their website per WCAG 2.0. Officially, I believe that means all their web pages would need to each meet a level AA Rating. They have over 10,000 pages, far too many to analyze and remediate. The vast majority are archival pages such as meeting minutes.
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> With a website visitation report, I can identify the pages receiving let's say 90% of the public visits, perhaps 100 or so pages. If we bring those pages to a AA rating, could we claim the website has a AA Rating because a substantial number of web pages have that rating?
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> If not, can you refer me to WCAG guidelines for making large websites accessible?
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> Thanks,
> Peter Shikli
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