[obsolete] RC Brainstorm 1

Running summary of comments to date. Always under construction, by definition. If I've missed something, please send email to:

Leonard Kasday
kasday@acm.org

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A site accessibility survey across multiple URLs should help assess the work required to fix them.
- Pass/Fail suffice?
- point to clauses in Guidelines?
- Required/Recommended?
- report different manifestations?
How should the WAI accessibility guidelines be integrated into accessibility analysis and reporting tools like Bobby?
- What algorithm? Total count? Pass/Fail? Weights?
- How to tactfully report?
- Problems at SGML Open Member Companies; Companies using Content Data Format.
- Need to express in simple words for those not familiar with HTML.
- Not all guidelines readily quantifiable by a computer program.
Scope of this group (and name).
- Should we deal with tools? If so how?
  - Role compared to UA and AU group?
  - Develop or coordinate?
  - Perhaps work only on "remote" tools, i.e. not part of author or browsing package.
- Rename WAI-TIE: Tools for Improving and Evaluating Weg Page Accessibility?
"Keep as simple and understandable as possible"