Re: Success Criteria Best Practice Guidelines

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On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
wrote:

> On Tuesday’s call the Working Group did not get to discuss the best
> practice guidelines, but we wanted to get discussion going on the list.
> The survey where we started the discussion on this is
> https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/reqsWCAG21/results.
>
> ==start==
> Success Criteria Best Practice Guidelines
>
> For the Working Group to accept a candidate success criterion, they need
> to fit within the overall structure. The following are guidelines that will
> help the Working Group efficiently process suggested SC:
>
>    - Ensure that the criteria is written as simply as possible. SC are
>    better when they:
>       - Are short in length
>    - Minimize the use of lists and when necessary numbered lists are
>       preferred to more easily allow referencing specific items
>    - Do not require the use of "notes" (Notes are regarded as Normative
>       in WCAG 2.0 and 2.1)
>    - Avoid jargon and unnecesarily complex language.
>    - When utilizing a glossary term (or adding a glossary term) the SC
>    needs to make sense when the defined term is replaced with the full
>    glossary definition.
>    - The SC can be summarized into a simple language sentence that
>    describes its theme
>
> ==end==
>
> Please provide any comments/suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> AWK
>
> Andrew Kirkpatrick
> Group Product Manager, Standards and Accessibility
> Adobe
>
> akirkpat@adobe.com
> http://twitter.com/awkawk
>