Examples of conformance claims
The conformance claim has several components, divided into 3 parts:
- What pages conforms
- What used technologies are “accessibility supported”
- Optional components
WCAG 2 has thought on expressing conformance claims using metadata. We will see in other post how to do it. Meanwhile, use the natural text to do it.
What pages conforms (Required)
- The whole site conforms: The ideal
- On 14 October 2009, all Web pages at http://www.mydomain.com conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 at http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/. Level A conformance.
- Some parts of the site conforms: using regular expressions
- On 14 October 2009, all Web pages at http://www.mydomain.com/(products|contact)/.* conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 at http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/. Level A conformance.
- Some parts of the site conforms: using boolean logic
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On 14 October 2009, Web pages at
- ( http://www.mydomain.com/
- AND http://subdomain1.mydomain.com/ )
- AND NOT ( http://subdomain2.mydomain.com/
- OR http://subdomain3.mydomain.com/ )
conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 at http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/. Level A conformance.
- Only one page
- On 14 October 2009, the web`page “Contact” at http://www.mydomain.com/contact.html conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 at http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/. Level A conformance.
What used technologies are “accessibility supported”.(Required)
Tomorrow I will introduce what “Accessibility Support” means for WCAG 2. Meanwhile, get the short ideas: a technology is accessibility supported if that technology will work with user agents and assistive technologies and
a technology is relied upon if the content would not conform if that technology is turned off or is not supported.
a technology is relied upon if the content would not conform if that technology is turned off or is not supported.
- Listed on a page
- The documented set of accessibility-supported content technologies relied upon for this claim is listed at http://www.mydomain.com/accessibility/technologies.html
- Listed on the claim
- The technologies that this content “relies upon” is: XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS 2.0 and JavaScript 1.2.
- Subset of a list on a page
- The documented set of accessibility-supported content technologies relied upon for this claim includes XHTML 1.0 and SMIL from “January 2009 list” at http://www.mydomain.com/accessibility/technologies.html#january2009.
Optional components
- Going beyond the level
- The following additional Success Criteria have also been met: 1.1.2, 1.2.5, and 1.4.3.
- Technologies used (both relied and not relied)
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- The technologies that this content “relies upon” is: XHTML 1.0 (Strict), and Real Video.
- The technologies that this content “uses but does not rely upon” are: JavaScript 1.2, CSS2.
- User agents you have tested with
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- The user agents, including assistive technologies, that this content has been tested with can be found at http://www.mydomain.com/accessibility/test-technologies.html
- This content was tested using the following user agents and assistive technologies: Firefox 1.5 on Windows Vista with Screenreader X 4.0, Firefox 1.5 on Windows XP SP 2 with Screenreader X 3.5, IE 6.0 on Windows 2000 SP4 with Screenreader Y 5.0, IE 6.0 on Windows 2000 SP4 with Screenreader Z 2.0, and Firefox 1.5 on Windows XP SP2 with Screenreader X 4.0, Safari 2.0 with OS X 10.4.
