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Comment LC-1152: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Greg Lowney <gcl-0039@access-research.org> on behalf of Lowney Access Research, LLC; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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One required component of a conformance claim is "Scope of the claim (a URI, list of URI's, or a set of URIs defined by a regular expression)," and the examples each include a single URI. This, the Examples, and the Conformance Notes all fail to clarify whether citing a single URI implies conformance is claimed for that one web page (or equivalent), or all pages referenced by it, or all pages "beneath it" on the server. For example, does claiming conformance for http://telcor.example.com/nav/G7/intro.html mean that conformance is claimed just for that one page, or for all the pages it links to, or all the pages in the /nav/G7/ directory on the server, including or not including subdirectories? I suggest clarifying this and also including an example of a claim for an entire Web site or multi-page portion thereof.; Related issues: 572
(space separated ids); WG Notes: [EDITORZ] Discussed in the 20 July 2006 telecon: Action: Christophe and Ben to look at simplifying this. Refered back to Editors. http://www.w3.org/2006/07/20-wai-wcag-minutes.html Response: Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0300.html Discussed in the 21 September 2006 telecon: Resolution: accept LC-572 and LC-1152 as amended http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2006/09/21-wai-wcag-minutes.html {Question-answered} DONE revise parenthetical of item 6 of required components of a conformance claim to read, "(a URI, list of URI's, or a set of URIs defined by a boolean or regular expression)" DONE revise definition of regular expression to read: regular expression: a sequence of characters that describes or matches a pattern of characters DONE revise examples 1-3 to clarify their scope Example 1: On 23 March 2005, [all content available on the server at] http://www.wondercall.example.com conforms.. Example 2: On 5 May 2006, [the page] "G7: An Introduction" http://telcor.example.com/nav/G7/intro.html conforms... Example 3: On 21 June 2007, [all content beginning with the URI] http://example.com/nav/ and http://example.com/docs/ conforms ... See LC-572 for related actions. Updated internal WD 22 September. Previous response: We have updated the scope of the conformance claim requirement to include boolean expressions and have revised the definition of regular expression. The conformance section states that the claim is for a URI or a range of URIs that must be specifically stated in the conformance claim. It also states that it is only for Web Units themselves. It would not cover other units that are linked to the Web Unit. Regarding the examples, the intent of the three conformance claim examples was for the first to be for an entire site, the second for a specific page, and the third for two directories of a site. However, this was not expressed clearly and has been fixed. We have also added two examples to illustrate the use of boolean and regular expressions in a conformance statement. 26-jan-07: revised response due to conformance section rewrite Discussed in the 08 February 2007 telecon: Accepted by unanimous consent. http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/02/08-wai-wcag-minutes.html; Resolution: We have completely rewritten the Conformance section. The format of this description is no longer specified. The corresponding required component is now: 4. A description of the URIs that the claim is being made for, including whether subdomains are included in the claim. We have fixed the existing examples to clarify that the first applies to the entire site and the second applies only to the specific page. We have added examples to illustrate the use of boolean and regular expressions in a conformance statement.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)