I don't understand why the "rationales" are designated as "normative"..


From QA SpecGL  22 Nov 04 WD 1.1 Good Practice C:


"Normative content is the prescriptive part of the specification, whereas
informative content is for informational purposes and assists in the
understanding and use of the specification. Content includes all sorts of
different forms  not only descriptive prose, but illustrations, examples, use
cases, formulae and other formalisms. ....
Conformance of implementations is defined by and measured against normative
content."


I do not think the Rationales are testable; they aid in understanding of the
specification, and therefore, should be informative, if one follows
the Good Practice C mentioned previously.


Also, it needs to be mentioned explicitly in Section 3 what it means to "meet a
checkpoint" in Section 3.    I thought it meant satisfying the success criteria
associated with that checkpoint as prescribed by Section 3 (passing all the
relevant tests associated with that success criteria?)


 Perhaps Section 3 material should be moved to before the Guidelines, since it
mentions priorities and a reader might want to know this
material before accessing the Guidelines, and conformance is an important
subject that should be "up front"


Thanks and best wishes,
Tim Boland NIST


PS  If an offering claims conformance to Level AA ATAG2.0 by immediately passing
all the Level AA tests first, does it also conform by default to Level A
(assumed to pass the Level A tests by default, as a way of saving testing effort
and resources)?   I assume not from Figure 1 in Section 3?, but this is not
explicitly stated..   What constraints are there on the various levels
(subdivisions)?


PPS A list of changes from ATAG1.0 to ATAG2.0 needs to be included (probably as
an appendix), as well as whether the specification
allows extensions


PPPS Any deprecated features from ATAG1.0 to ATAG2.0 (see previous) need to be
identified;  if there are any, then ATAG2.0 needs
to define how to handle them