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Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) Resource Page

Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) is a machine-readable language for expressing test results. This page offers a comprehensive list of resources related to EARL.

Current Publications

Evaluation and Report Language 1.0 (EARL 1.0) - W3C Working Draft, 6 December 2002

• ETA forum for ERT WG

Implementations

• AXForms - Charles McCathieNevile
• TILE (not yet, but soon) - ATRC
• WAINU - Pierre Queinnec & Romain Roure
• EARL Publisher for the Acc Family of Products - HiSoftware
• InFocus - SSB Technologies
• W3C Markup Validation Service
• EARL test database - IRC chat log with pointer
• A JavaScript Bookmarklet for EARL by Sean B. Palmer
• Access Tool Reviewer (ATR) by Chris Ridpath
  • Test files by Josh Krieger and Chris Ridpath
  • Test file DTD
• EARL/ATR transform to XHTML by Sean B. Palmer
• EARL filter. Takes a claim in EARL such as, "this page conforms to all P1 checkpoints of WCAG 1.0," filters that against a machine-readable version of WCAG 1.0 to create a bit of EARL that lists the P1 checkpoints that the page conforms to. SBP May 2001.
• Page Valet by Nick Kew
• EARL client and database by Jim Ley
• Brainstorm list of possible implementations from the 1-3 Oct 2001 F2F.
• Magical Unnamed Test Automating Tool by Nadia Heninger
• FillyJonk IRC Bot by Jim Ley
• Accessibility Proxy and XML validation webservice by Nick Kew

Papers that describe or refer to EARL

• Using RDF to annotate the (semantic) web Phil Cross, Libby Miller, Sean Palmer

Previous drafts

• Pieces to assemble for next working draft
  • EARL 1.0 XHTML source document
  • Annotated EARL examples
  • discussion thread
  • earl-spec.xsl, incorporate Nadia's reorganization
• EARL 1.0-ish schema - n3, xml rdf April 2002, SBP
• EARL 0.95 by example - 13 February 2002, Sean B. Palmer.
• EARL 1.0 Specification - 9 December 2001, Sean B. Palmer.
• Overview (EARL 0.95) - Sean B. Palmer
• Introduction and FAQ (EARL 0.95) - Sean B. Palmer
• User Scenarios - Len Kasday.
• More use cases from the 1-3 Oct 2001 F2F.
• Thoughts about EARL 1.0 and future of EARL. SBP 13 July 2001.
• Linear version of EARL. SBP 2 July 2001.
• Slides from Tech Review. WAC 13 December 2001

Related resources

• XML representations of arbitrary languages (Javascript, CSS, etc.) (BNF to XML)
• RDF
• N3 Primer | N3 Details | N3 Processing overview | CWM Source | logic | Test (some links broken) | SWAG N3 to RDF Converter
• Amaya and its RDF Annotation Schema.| RSS 1.0
• Common Industry Format for Usability Test Reports
• ATAG Demo - RDF Query demo by Charles McCathieNevile and Dan Brickley.

Document Information

Version note: Up to date as of June 2005
Editor: Shadi Abou-Zahra. Developed with the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG).

[Contacting WAI] Feedback welcome to wai-eo-editors@w3.org (a publicly archived list).

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