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Results of Questionnaire Silver requirements revision

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This questionnaire was open from 2021-01-27 to 2021-02-02.

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Update to Silver Requirements

1. Update to Silver Requirements

The Requirements for Silver were published with WCAG 3.0.

COGA requested a revision to include the requirement to support a wider range of disabilities as a requirement in the document. Pull request 262 includes the wording worked out between the COGA and Silver taskforces to address this gap. The new language is also listed below.

Broad disability support

All WCAG 3.0 guidance has tests or procedures so that the results can be verified. In addition to the current true/false success criteria, other ways of measuring (for example, rubrics, sliding scale, task-completion, user research with people with disabilities, and more) can be used where appropriate so that more needs of people with disabilities can be included.

Silver guidance includes tests and other evaluation methods. Some guidance may use true/false verification but other guidance will use other ways of measuring and/or evaluating where appropriate so that more needs of people with disabilities may be included (for example: rubrics, sliding scale, task-completion, user research with people with disabilities, and more). This approach includes particular attention to people whose needs may better be met with a broad testing strategy, such as people with low vision, limited vision, or cognitive and learning disabilities.

Do you:

Summary

Choice	All responders
Choice	Results
Agree with the revised wording	3
Agree with the revised wording with edits	6
Disagree, for the following reasons	1

Details

Responder	Update to Silver Requirements	Comments
Nicaise Dogbo	Disagree, for the following reasons	I find the Original wording to be a bit easier to understand and not cumbersome . I would like to propose a small change in the original wording as follows: Current: "all WCAG 3.0 guidance has..." proposed: "each WCAG 3.0 guidance includes..." I can also live with original wording if changes I am proposing is not possible at this time.
Jake Abma	Agree with the revised wording
Wilco Fiers	Agree with the revised wording with edits	I take it the first version of this is the previous one, and the second is the new one? Why did this change from "WCAG 3.0 guidance" to "Silver guidance"?
Bruce Bailey	Agree with the revised wording with edits	As Wilco notes, 2nd paragraph first word should be WCAG 3.0, not Silver. I would note that I think the first paragraph should be "All WCAG 3.0 *Guidelines* have..." (instead of "All WCAG 3.0 guidance has..."
Laura Carlson	Agree with the revised wording
Sukriti Chadha	Agree with the revised wording with edits	delete "so that more needs of people with disabilities may be included" - to have examples such as rubrics etc. right after ways of measuring "whose needs may better be met with a broad testing strategy" - might be saying the same thing as the part deleted. Okay with both - suggestion is basically to make it more concise
Sarah Horton	Agree with the revised wording with edits	Change “Silver guidance” to “WCAG 3.0 guidance”.
Cybele Sack	Agree with the revised wording	Agree because testing should help us move towards the goal of greater accessibility and not be used to curtail accessibility. "And others" should also be added to types of disabilities, although "such as" may be ok (should be discussed, about who is still left out).
Detlev Fischer	Agree with the revised wording with edits	The formulation seems quite repetitive (for example, rubrics, sliding scale, task-completion, user research with people with disabilities, and more) appears twice. I think the text can (and should be) be boiled down to just one paragraph. Below I tried to reformulate, also shortening sentences. I believe nothing is missing and the text is shorter and easier to read (but it can certainly still be improved). "All WCAG 3.0 guidance has tests or procedures so that the results can be verified. Some of this guidance uses true/false verification. In addition, WCAG 3.0 guidance includes other methods of measuring (for example, rubrics, sliding scale, task-completion, user research with people with disabilities, and more). This approach accommodates people whose needs are better reflected by a broad testing strategy, such as people with low vision, limited vision, or cognitive and learning disabilities."
Andrew Kirkpatrick	Agree with the revised wording with edits	Concerned about removal of "so that results can be verified" Also concerned about "includes particular attention to people whose needs may better be met with a broad testing strategy" - how does the guidance include "particular" attention? Is it neglecting other group or is it not particular attention, just more than what was in the past. THis seems a significant change from "multiple ways to measure"