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About This Document

This pages captures outstanding issues in the EARL 1.0 Schema Working Draft of 23 March, 2007. The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG) intends to address these issues in future updates of the working draft. Please send comments and feedback to the the mailing list of the ERT WG. The archives for this list are publicly available. This document is an on-going work in progress and is subject to change at any time without advance notice (see also list of known issues for the previous working draft).

Table of Contents

• Overall Comments
• 0. Front Matter
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Structure of EARL Results
  • 1.2. Document Conventions and Audience
  • 1.3. About RDF Vocabularies
• 2. Core Vocabulary
  • 2.1. Assertion
  • 2.2. Assertor
    • 2.2.1. Single Assertor
    • 2.2.2. Compound Assertor
  • 2.3. Test Subject
  • 2.4. Test Criterion
  • 2.5. Test Mode
  • 2.6. Test Result
    • 2.6.1. Outcome Value
  • 2.7. Software Tool
  • 2.8. Content
• 3. Conformance
• Appendix A: EARL 1.0 Schema in RDF/XML
• Appendix B: EARL 1.0 Terms
• Appendix C: Document Changes
• Appendix D: References
• Appendix E: Contributors

Overall Comments

• [Closed] Issue #1: align this document with the EARL 1.0 Guide document once it is available -- done during November 2008 f2f meeting.
• [Closed] Issue #2: align this document with the HTTP Vocabulary in RDF document once it is available -- done during November 2008 f2f meeting
• [Closed] Issue #3: align this document with the Pointer Methods in RDF document once it is available -- done during November 2008 f2f meeting.
• [Closed] Issue #4: consider adding an XML Schema for EARL (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html) -- supporting XML is out of scope (see resolution in Minutes of 4 March, 2009.
• [Closed] Issue #5: revise the usage of RFC 2119 keywords (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html) -- revised during November 2008 f2f meeting.
  • [Open] Issue #5a: consider switching to the declarative form for the statements as described in the QA Wiki (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html) -- need to recheck this.
  • [Closed] Issue #5b: make sure that any constraints match the OWL semantics (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html) -- removed OWL restrictions as discussed during the November 2008 f2f meeting.
• [Rejected] Issue #21: consider representing WCAG using Test Case (from Shuaib Karim in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0016.html) -- it is out of scope of this document but ERT WG will explore this option in separately (see resolution in Minutes of 30 May, 2007).

0. Front Matter

• [Closed] Issue #15: revise copyright date (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html) -- fixed.
• [Closed] Issue #16: revise numbering in table of contents (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html) -- fixed.

1. Introduction

• [Closed] Issue #29: clarify the scope of EARL, especially its relationship to a test description language (from Shuaib Karim in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007May/0001.html) -- added brief statement in the introduction and intending to expand on this in the EARL 1.0 Guide.

1.1. Structure of EARL Results

The are currently no open issues for this section of the document.

1.2. Document Conventions and Audience

The are currently no open issues for this section of the document.

1.3. About RDF Vocabularies

The are currently no open issues for this section of the document.

2. Core Vocabulary

The are currently no open issues for this section of the document.

2.1. Assertion

The are currently no open issues for this section of the document.

2.2. Assertor

• [Closed] Issue #24: correct typo "an assertor asserts and assertion" (from Shuaib Karim in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0016.html) -- sentence dropped.

2.2.1. Single Assertor

The are currently no open issues for this section of the document.

2.2.2. Compound Assertor

• [Closed] Issue #6: clarify the responsibility of an assertion in a compound assertor (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html) -- dropped compound assertor to clearify relationships.
• [Closed] Issue #17: "organization" is missing in some of the descriptions (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html) -- revised the entire section accordingly.

2.3. Test Subject

• [Closed] Issue #25: correct typo "see not below" (from Shuaib Karim in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0016.html) -- removed note.

2.4. Test Criterion

The are currently no open issues for this section of the document.

2.5. Test Mode

• [Closed] Issue #7: clarify the meaning of the values and consider clearer term names (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html) -- revised the entire section. See also the following discussions:
  • [Closed] Issue #7a: consider dropping earl:inferred or putting it elsewhere as a modifier for the test mode (rather than as a test mode by itself) -- dropped earl:inferred (see previous discussions recorded in Minutes of 4 July, 2007, Minutes of 18 July, 2007, and November 2008 f2f meeting).
  • [Closed] Rename earl:heuristic to earl:inferred recorded in Minutes of 4 July, 2007 (note Issue #7a above, this property was dropped altogether).
  • [Closed] Adopt the definitions for earl:manual, earl:semiAutomatic, and earl:automatic recorded in Minutes of 18 July, 2007 -- incoporated definitions.
  • [Closed] Rename earl:notAvailable to earl:undisclosed recorded in Minutes of 18 July, 2007 -- renamed (see also November 2008 f2f meeting).
• [Closed] Issue #26: clarify the wording for earl:notAvailable (from Shuaib Karim in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0016.html) -- rebaned to earl:undisclosed and revised wording (see resolution in Minutes of 2 May, 2007 and November 2008 f2f meeting).

2.6. Test Result

• [Rejected] Issue #22: consider enriching the collected data for a broader usage (from Shuaib Karim in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0016.html) -- out of scope for this work (see resolution in Minutes of 30 May, 2007).

2.6.1. Outcome Value

• [Closed] Issue #8: consider having an extensible list of outcome values (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html) -- OutcomeValue is now a class with the values as sub-classes to allow for extensibility.
• [Closed] Issue #18: revise text for describing values vs. classes (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html and from Jeremy Carroll in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0011.html) -- revised wording.
• [Closed] Issue #27: correct typo "A test result with a outcome" in example 11 (from Shuaib Karim in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0016.html) -- fixed.

2.7. Software Tool

The are currently no open issues for this section of the document.

2.8. Content

This class will be dropped in favor of an external and more generic "Content Class" (see resolution in Minutes of 5 September, 2007) -- all comments have been moved accordingly.

• [Moved] Issue #10: consider reusing the TAG Information Resource to describe content (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html). See resolution in Minutes of 1 August, 2007 and resolution in Minutes of 5 September, 2007.
• [Moved] Issue #11: revise applicability and scope of earl:Content to non-HTTP content (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html). See resolution in Minutes of 5 September, 2007.
• [Moved] Issue #23: consider placing earl:context outside earl:Content to reflect factors influencing the test such as device or location etc (from Shuaib Karim in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0016.html). See resolution in Minutes of 5 September, 2007.
• [Moved] Issue #32: the idetifier rdf:about is not sufficient for HTTP content, and not adequate for non-HTTP content (from Carlos Velasco in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Jul/0020.html). See resolution in Minutes of 5 September, 2007.
• [Moved] Issue #33: remove "xml:lang='en'" from example 13. See resolution in Minutes of 1 August, 2007 and resolution in Minutes of 5 September, 2007.

3. Conformance

The are currently no open issues for this section of the document.

Appendix A: EARL 1.0 Schema in RDF/XML

• [Moved] Issue #9: revise the implementation of earl:sourceCopy (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html). See resolution in Minutes of 5 September, 2007.
• [Closed] Issue #12: use rdfs:comment to provide semantic descriptions rather than syntactic ones (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html). See resolution in Minutes of 30 May, 2007.
• [Closed] Issue #13: description of earl:Assertor and earl:SingleAssertor only mentions persons but not organizations (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html) -- descriptions have been revised.
• [Moved] Issue #14: description of earl:Content only mentions content on the Web while the intended scope is larger than that (from Dominique Hazael-Massieux in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0008.html). See resolution in Minutes of 30 May, 2007 and resolution in Minutes of 5 September, 2007.
• [Closed] Issue #19: revise the usage of OWL, and clarify which variant will be used (from Shuaib Karim in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0016.html) -- OWL restrictions have been removed.
• [Rejected] Issue #20: consider representing the semantics for Test Mode in the schema (from Shuaib Karim in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0016.html). See resolution in Minutes of 6 June, 2007 and resolution in Minutes of 5 September, 2007.
• [Closed] Issue #30: revise the usage of parseType="Collection" on rdfs:subClassOf (from Dan Connolly in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Jun/0087.html) -- removed this usage of parseType="Collection" on rdfs:subClassOf.
• [Closed] Issue #31: consider using RoleNoun lables rather than the current HasPropertyOf style (from Dan Connolly in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Jun/0088.html) -- reverted to RoleNoun style throughout the document.

Appendix B: EARL 1.0 Terms

• [Closed] Issue #28: correct typos in last two rows of the properties table "Recmmended" (from Evangelos Vlachogiannis in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2007Apr/0031.html) -- appendix has been dropped.

Appendix C: Document Changes

The are currently no open issues for this section of the document.

Appendix D: References

The are currently no open issues for this section of the document.

Appendix E: Contributors

The are currently no open issues for this section of the document.