List Of Changes From EARL 0.9 To 0.95

Vocabulary Changes

Added

• Added a set of standard ResultProperty(s). e.g. by providing "earl:passes" and "earl:fails".
• Added earl:note. Like rdfs:comment, but allows for complex objects, which rdfs:comment doesn't.
• Added earl:repairInfo
• Added earl:sameSubjectAs.
• Added earl:os and earl:ccppSetting.
• Added earl:DateRange stuff
• Added earl:operator and earl:Operator, as a person who operates a certain tool
• Added earl:suite (different from the old earl:suite)
• Added earl:testId (not the same as the old earl:id)
• Added the earl:testCriteria stuff:-
  • earl:testCriteria and earl:TestCriteria
  • earl:level and earl:Level
  • Added earl:excludes and earl:Exclusion. For example, when you say that "my page conforms to all WCAG AA points except for one...".
• Added earl:UserAgent
• Added earl:contactInfo and earl:ContactInfo
• Added earl:TestPlatform
• Added earl:repairInfo and earl:RepairInfo

Removed

• Removed earl:testResult
• Removed earl:address (and earl:Address) - use earl:contactInfo instead

Replacements

• Changed hasX to just X. Affects:-
  • earl:hasEmail => earl:email
  • earl:hasName => earl:name
  • earl:hasPlatform => earl:platform
  • earl:hasSnapshot => earl:snapshot
• Changed 0.9 earl:suite into earl:testSuite

Model Changes

More Restriction

• earl:date now mandatory on earl:TestSubject.
• earl:released and earl:lastModified are now rdfs:subPropertyOf earl:date. Useful!
• Added "earl:testSubject a daml:UniqueProperty".

Less Restriction

• The domain and range semantics way too strict for earl:asserts - now using a DAML restriction instead. This means that people can use earl:asserts in their own ontologies.
• earl:version now has less strict domain semantics - can be used more widely.
• earl:testSuite has less strict domain semantics - can be used more widely (same as earl:testId, but that's new)
• earl:platform now has less strict range and domain semantics - can be used more widely.

Other

• p/o in earl:Assertion has been swapped around. Aaron and I had a chat about this, based upon Charles work on the RDF Conformance langauge thing. It makes more sense that way around.
• Now uses a novel way to define evaluations and assertions - as an intersection of some restrictions on the reification properties. Got a little feedback on this, and in any case, I think it's a good development - better than doing it in prose.
• Changed earl:expectedResult from having a domain of earl:TestCase to earl:RepairInfo.
• Changed range of expectedResult back from rdfs:Literal to not specified (i.e. rdfs:Resource). This is the most important property for repair.
• earl:released and earl:lastModified now have earl:Date as a range.
• Added domain to earl:testSubject.

Corrections

• Corrected rdf:Literal to rdfs:Literal.

Comments to w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org [archives] please.