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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.
Publications
- Developers' Guide to Features of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
- Latest Public Draft: in progress
- Latest Editor Draft: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/WD-AERT/ED-AERT
- Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Requirements
- Latest Public Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/EARL10-Requirements/
- Latest Editors Draft: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/EARL10-Requirements/
- Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema
- Latest Public Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/EARL10-Schema/
- Latest Editors Draft: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/EARL10-Schema/
- Issues List http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/EARL10/issues
- Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Guide
- Latest Public Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/EARL10-Guide/
- Latest Editors Draft: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/EARL10-Guide/
- Issues List http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/EARL10/guide-issues
- HTTP Vocabulary in RDF 1.0
- Latest Public Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/HTTP-in-RDF/
- Latest Editors Draft: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/HTTP-in-RDF/
- Issues List http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/HTTP/issues
- Representing Content in RDF 1.0
- Latest Public Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/Content-in-RDF/
- Latest Editors Draft: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/Content-in-RDF/
- Issues List http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/Content/issues
- Pointer Methods in RDF 1.0
- Latest Public Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/Pointers-in-RDF/
- Latest Editors Draft: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/Pointers-in-RDF/
- Issues List http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/Pointers/issues
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 & Articles about 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-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.