Silver Prototype Archive

This page has links to all the various prototype projects for reference purposes. Most of these prototypes were superseded by more refined versions. There are many more related documents in the Google Drive folder for Silver Prototypes

Information Architecture

• Tagging System Demo - Mike Crabb's working prototype with Guidelines, Methods and the tagging filters.
• Methods Prototype for Language of the Page. This is a prototype of how a guideline can be designed starting from the user need -> tests -> methods -> guideline. It uses tests developed by the W3C Auto-WCAG Community Group using test rule standards developed by the Accessibility Conformance Testing Task Force.
• Information Architecture: Tagging Ideas
• Information Architecture. This is the original design proposal including the goals of the Information Architecture. It has the early information on tagging engine.
  • Information Architecture template for testing the functionality of the Information Architecture prototype.
• Information Architecture: Tagging Ideas
• Google Drive folder with all the information architecture related documents

Plain Language

• Proposal for Plain Language Audiences
• Plain Language Prototype 2 - (Github) a tabbed display of normative guidance in plain language with informative information. The information in the prior Google doc is being used to fill this tabbed HTML document.
• Silver Style Guide draft
• Plain Language Template for drafting existing accessibility guidance into Silver.
• Plain Language Prototype a Google doc with public comments. It has the text for plain language for 4 existing WCAG 2.1 success criteria and compares it to existing WCAG 2.1 structure.
• Mockup of Silver design a Google drawing with public comments. It is a rough sketch describing how the Silver guidance could be integrated and displayed to make it easier to find and understand information on individual guidance.
• Silver plain language prototype - a Google doc with public comments with guidance in a new structure that combines normative success criteria with informative information building on the WCAG Understanding documents.
• Google Drive folder of plain language documents

Conformance & Scoring

2020

• Conformance Issues and Decisions - a summary of open questions and decision breaking down all the issues and discussions in one place.
• Diagram of Functional User Needs in the Silver Architecture
• Diagram of Silver Architecture showing some proposals for Conformance
• Survey on depreciating scores
• Walkthrough of task-based testing (email from ShawnL)

Q2 2020 Proposals

• Merged Conformance Proposal - from the discussion of the Silver Deep Dive meeting of 11 August 2020
• Conformance Proposal - Alternative Approach (29 July 2020)
• WCAG 3 Scoring Proposal - proposal from John Foliot (7 August 2020)
• Suggestions for a WCAG3 - proposal from Detlev (11 August 2020)

Q1 2020 work for reference

• Conformance Issues and Decisions - a summary of open questions and decision breaking down all the issues and discussions in one place.
• Diagram of Functional User Needs in the Silver Architecture
• Diagram of Silver Architecture showing some proposals for Conformance
• Survey on depreciating scores
• Walkthrough of task-based testing (email from ShawnL)
• Scoring Example February 2020 - outdated, but has useful components that could be adapted to testing evolved proposal.

References from the May Virtual Face to Face

This is so we don't lose them.

• How to Prioritize Usability Problems
• Scoring Examples - spreadsheet with different scoring examples
• Example of Defining a Task Based Scope
• ACT Rules atomic vs composite rules
• Benchmarking UX: Tracking Metrics
• Qualitative vs Quantitative Usability Testing
• UX Research Cheat Sheet
• ISO Development of user interface accessibility — Part 1: Code of practice for creating accessible ICT products and services
• CVAA Performance Objectives

WCAG3 Architecture (Jake's) Proposal

• Overview Flow Chart - graphic that accompanies the revised Content Migration Process document. It is currently not described, although we have plans to do that.
• Conformance in WCAG3 Architecture

Inaccessible Pages for Testing Purposes

• Login
• Registration Form

2020 Conformance Proposals

• Scoring Example draft of content requested by AGWG.
  • older Sample Scoring example spreadsheet for clear language. Includes tab with Draft Adjectival Ratings.
• Normative Informative Pros and Cons - this document explores what sections of WCAG3 could and should be normative or informative.
• Rachael's proposal building adjectival ratings proposal
• Partial scoring of Headings guideline from John Foliot
• Proposal to Combine Adjective and Task Completion Scoring
• Edge Cases for Conformance

2019

• Silver Conformance Issues and Exceptions
• User Scenarios or Use Cases for Silver Conformance - [working document]
• Sampling for Large Projects - a proposal summarizing relevant research
• How to evaluate Conformance Proposals - List of tests for conformance model prototype based on the Silver Requirements from (last updated September 2019)
• How to evaluate Conformance Proposals (working doc) - The process to use to evaluate the different Conformance proposals. It includes the goals for Silver Conformance.
• Conformance Example for Images Need Alternative Text - a snippet of prototype showing how a heuristic walkthrough could be used to evaluate alternative text.
• Silver Conformance Design (May 2019) gives an overview of the current status of the Conformance Prototype and a list of issues to be resolved.
• Challenges with Conformance for Large, Complex, and/or Dynamic Websites - [deprecated and will not be updated]. See Challenges with Conformance for Large, Complex, and/or Dynamic Websites on Github.
• An draft of Silver Conformance that pulls together the disparate discussions and work in smaller groups. It is still very much under development, but it gives the most comprehensive overview.
• Heuristics for Silver Conformance is a proposal for including usability testing in Silver Conformance.
• Conformance Proposals of July 2019 and analysis
  • Folder of Pros, Cons, Risks, and Holes evaluation documents
  • Current Conformance Draft (June 2019) This is the proposal developed by the Silver Group mostly in 2018. It includes how conformance fits into the Silver Information Architecture.
  • Conformance model of JIS X 8341-3:2016 This is a summary of the adaptation of WCAG conformance adopted in Japan.
  • Proposal to Define Scoring Parameters - a discussion of what measuring factors should be used for Silver, and a Scoring System Proposal measuring the factors.
  • Scoring and Reporting Proposal - a spreadsheet of a point system scoring proposal.
  • Alternate Scoring Proposal - Nov 2018 proposal for weighting points for partial conformance
  • Thinking About Points
  • Multiple scoring "currencies" - email to list
  • What could "Simplified Monitoring" of Web Accessibility Directive mean

2018

• Methods Prototype for Language of the Page. This is a prototype of how a guideline can be designed starting from the user need -> tests -> methods -> guideline. It uses tests developed by the W3C Auto-WCAG Community Group using test rule standards developed by the Accessibility Conformance Testing Task Force.
• Conformance Proposal (last updated 10 August)
• Conformance: Examples of how Silver Conformance can work - brainstorming document with a lot of rough edges
• Conformance: How to determine the points in the point system A document experimenting with how Silver could develop the point system in a transparent manner. It takes existing WCAG 2.1 SCs and plays around with different formulas and criteria for weighting the scoring. It is NOT intended for users to score their product.
• Minutes from AGWG meeting of 8 January 2019 discussing Silver Conformance
• Measurement Resources
• Google Drive folder of Conformance-related documents

Meaningful Involvement

• Creating a Meaningful Involvement Prototype for WCAG Silver - a Google Slide presentation to OCAD Inclusive Design Center about involving more people with disabilities in creating products.
• Extending Silver to cover requirements for involving people with disabilities in the digital authoring process Proposal for meaningful involvement based on 11 September 2018 meeting.

Silver Requirements

• Silver Requirements draft (due to a bug in a W3C bot routine, the date may not be accurate. )

Editor's Draft Prototype

• View of Silver as a W3C Editor's Draft. This is a mockup and is not based on live data.
• Google Drive folder of Combined Prototype

Contributing to Prototypes

Note: While prototypes were originally created in Github, accessibility issues with Github made it more useful to allow participants to create prototypes using the tools most accessible to them. You can submit prototypes using whatever tool is most suitable. Please make sure that whatever you send does not require purchase of third-party software.

• Invitation: Contribute ideas to Silver blog post
• Project Plan to get to a First Public Editors Draft in Q4 2018.
• Listing of prototypes in the Github Repository - for those who wish to read or review the prototypes
• Silver Github Repository - for those who wish to contribute prototypes
• For Help with Github:
  • Mastering Github with a Screen Reader by Birkir Gunnarsson
  • Git & Github: An Introduction Training Video by Eric Eggert