Email: ITI Comments on First Public Working Draft of W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 (13 - Process definition)

[jspellman]

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5. Is this approach of using complete processes as the smallest unit of conformance workable for different types of organizations? These include organizations with very large, dynamic, or complex content, medium-sized organizations relying on external accessibility resources, and very small organizations with limited resources?

It was not immediately clear that the smallest unit of conformance is a process, so the group should review the document to make this more clear, including adding this to the “Differences from WCAG 2.x” section.
The use of process as the unit of conformance, which could include a single page in some cases, seems like a useful concept. The challenge with this is in the definition of process, which is rather loosely defined as “A process is a complete activity the user performs.”. There may be a challenge when content providers - disagree with others on what constitutes a process. Having examples of what is not a process would help greatly.

[jspellman]

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[slauriat]

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It was not immediately clear that the smallest unit of conformance is a process, so the group should review the document to make this more clear, including adding this to the “Differences from WCAG 2.x” section.

Agreed that we should make concepts and direction around things like processes clearer, including in the introduction and "Differences from WCAG 2.x" sections.

The use of process as the unit of conformance, which could include a single page in some cases, seems like a useful concept. The challenge with this is in the definition of process, which is rather loosely defined as “A process is a complete activity the user performs.”. There may be a challenge when content providers - disagree with others on what constitutes a process. Having examples of what is not a process would help greatly.

Also agreed! We'll follow up as we get "processes" figured out a bit more in-depth and with some illustrative examples, so that we can check on it looks and fits together, more practically speaking.