A List Apart: Articles: Testability Costs Too Much - The Diigo Meta page

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• 26 Jun 07
  

  Kazuhito Kidachi

  "When success criteria are removed because they are not testable—even if they are otherwise valid and useful success criteria—the Working Group has lost its way, and we need to guide them back to the right path."

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  Michael Barrish

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  Christy Tucker

  accessibility webdesign

  • The problem with testability is that even the most reasonable of success criteria can be non-testable—and if a success criterion is not considered testable, it isn’t included in WCAG 2.0. Whether the criterion is an otherwise useful technique that improves accessibility is now irrelevant to whether it gets included in WCAG 2.0.

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  Christy Tucker on 2007-06-26
  In the proposed draft of WCAG 2.0, all criteria must be considered "testable" by either machine or humans. Can a machine test whether an alt attribute actually reveals any information? Would 8 of 10 people come up with the same alt for an image? The focus on testability has removed focus on what's actually helpful.
  

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