RE: Indicating required fields mandatory or not (SC 3.3.2 or 2.4.6)

I am not sure exactly what you mean by "legal evaluations", but as an independent testing company I guess we are doing that a lot of the time because some of our clients only care about conformance, not user experience. Often they are digital agencies who are building a website for someone else and they want to know that they have met their contractual obligations.

As such, they are never going to implement the nice-to-have enhancements that in-house developers might implement. And we have to be very careful that we can justify anything we tell them they need to change.

We also provide conformance assessments to companies that are getting sued (invariably under ADA in the US). However, to date these assessments have not been used because the plaintiff and defendant just want to settle as soon as possible regardless of the rights and wrongs of the case. 

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd



-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> 
Sent: 31 July 2019 09:35
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: Indicating required fields mandatory or not (SC 3.3.2 or 2.4.6)

On 31/07/2019 09:18, Gerard Copinga wrote:

> Are there other people on this list who do (legal) evaluations? And 
> how would you deal with this?

I'll echo the general sentiment that especially for evaluations/audits that have a legal aspect to them, you as an auditor have to be VERY conservative in what you pass/fail when it falls within gray areas, and it's generally about the very literal reading of the normative wording of the SC only. Unless you can provide fairly watertight proof that your particular interpretation is correct and accepted, you sometimes have to clarify when something "follows the normative wording, but we'd still recommend you do X" instead.

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