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Rename "foundational" to "core" within Explainer (#578)
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<ul>
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<li>Guidelines (Outcome Statements) - normative
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<ul>
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<li>Foundational Requirements - normative
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<li>Core Requirements - normative
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<ul>
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<li>How to Documents - informative
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learn about and understand the concepts. </p>
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<p>Guidelines are normative.</p>
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<p>Guidelines are <a>technology-agnostic</a> and address functional needs on specific topics, such as contrast, forms, readability, and more.
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Foundational requirements, supplemental requirements, and assertions that relate
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Core requirements, supplemental requirements, and assertions that relate
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to a Guideline are listed together to encourage adoption of higher levels of accessibility.</p>
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<h3>Requirements and Methods</h3>
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<p>Each Guideline contains multiple Requirements:</p>
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<ul><li>Foundational Requirements will be required to meet base level conformance. They will be part, but not all, of base level
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<ul><li>Core Requirements will be required to meet base level conformance. They will be part, but not all, of base level
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conformance. This set of requirements will
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cover a similar, but not identical, set of needs as WCAG 2.2 Level AA. </li>
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<li>Supplemental Requirements will be used at all levels of conformance, but testers or policy makers will be able to select
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<p>Requirements reduce or eliminate barriers that people with disabilities experience. Requirements are designed for use
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by developers, testers, and other technical specialists.</p>
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<p>Requirements are normative.</p>
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<p>Each set of Foundational Requirements are organized into a decision tree to show the relationship between requirements and
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<p>Each set of Core Requirements are organized into a decision tree to show the relationship between requirements and
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to allow for accessibility-supported solutions in the future.</p>
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<p>Each Requirement is associated with at least one <a>Method</a>.
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<h4>Using Assertions</h4>
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<p>Assertions may be used, in addition to Requirements, to support a Guideline. Only assertions included in this document can be used for conformance. Not all Guidelines include Assertions. Guidelines that include Assertions list them with the Requirements.
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Organizations can make an Assertion that they followed a procedure as part of a conformance claim. Assertions build on Foundational Requirements. Assertions cannot be used as alternatives to Foundational Requirements.</p>
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Organizations can make an Assertion that they followed a procedure as part of a conformance claim. Assertions build on Core Requirements. Assertions cannot be used as alternatives to Core Requirements.</p>
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<div class="ednote">
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<p>The working group will consider whether assertions may be used to support guidelines when requirements are not available.</p>
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<p>AG will continue developing requirements and methods. Each publication will include additional examples, and/or more mature examples for public comment.</p>
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<p>AG's next steps include:</p>
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<li>Define criteria for which requirements are foundational and which are supplemental.</li>
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<li>Define criteria for which requirements are core and which are supplemental.</li>
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<li>Develop mature examples of 2 guidelines with associated requirements, methods, tests, and How to documentation.</li>
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<li>Mature all guidelines to the developing stage.</li>
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<li>Further explore how conditional requirements and alternate ways to measure might be used to support Guidelines.</li>
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and vetting the conformance model is a large portion of the work AGWG needs to complete over the next few
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years. Drafts will include maturity models for public review and comment. </p>
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<p>AG is exploring a model based on Foundational Requirements, Supplemental Requirements, and Assertions.</p>
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<p>AG is exploring a model based on Core Requirements, Supplemental Requirements, and Assertions.</p>
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<p>The most basic level of conformance will require meeting all of the Foundational Requirements. This set will be somewhat
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<p>The most basic level of conformance will require meeting all of the Core Requirements. This set will be somewhat
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comparable to WCAG 2.2 Level AA.</p>
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<p>Higher levels of conformance will be defined and met using Supplemental Requirements and Assertions. AGWG will be exploring
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<p>The intent is for the responsibility of testing with user-agents to vary depending on the level of conformance.</p>
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<p>At the foundational level of conformance assumptions can be made by authors that methods and techniques provided by WCAG 3 work. At higher levels of conformance the author may need to test that a technique works, or check that available user-agents meet the requirement, or a combination of both.</p>
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<p>At the core level of conformance assumptions can be made by authors that methods and techniques provided by WCAG 3 work. At higher levels of conformance the author may need to test that a technique works, or check that available user-agents meet the requirement, or a combination of both.</p>
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<p>This approach means the working group will ensure that methods and techniques included do have reasonably wide and international support from user-agents, and there are sufficient techniques to meet each outcome.</p>
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