A List Apart: Articles: Testability Costs Too Much

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Fabiola_isabel on 2008-04-25 - Tags no_tag
Moultriecreek on 2007-07-11 - Tags accessibility , webdesign , webdev
Christyinsdesign on 2007-06-26 - Tags accessibility , webdesign

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on 2007-06-26 by christyinsdesign

In the proposed draft of WCAG 2.0, all criteria must be considered "testable" by either machine or humans. Can a machine test whether an alt attribute actually reveals any information? Would 8 of 10 people come up with the same alt for an image? The focus on testability has removed focus on what's actually helpful.

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There’s little mention of testability in WCAG 2.0 documents

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testability is one of WCAG 2.0’s big secrets:

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The problem with testability is that even the most reasonable of success criteria can be non-testable—and if a success criterion is not considered testable, it isn’t included in WCAG 2.0. Whether the criterion is an otherwise useful technique that improves accessibility is now irrelevant to whether it gets included in WCAG 2.0.

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