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<div class="x_PlainText">Dear WAI Interest Group,<br>
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Wouldn't it be helpful if all accessibility evaluation tools and methodologies produced accurate, consistent results? A major step toward that goal is W3C WAI work on Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules.<br>
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ACT Rules are specific tests for an accessibility standard. For example, an individual ACT Rule tests that an HTML page has a valid language tag, which is a requirement in the accessibility standard WCAG 2 [1].<br>
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ACT Rules are primarily for evaluation tool developers and evaluation methodology developers. They are also useful for testers who want more details on a specific point, for example, when researching edge cases.<br>
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More info is in:<br>
About ACT Rules<br>
<a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/rules/about/">https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/rules/about/</a><br>
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WAI publishes information on ACT Rules implementations. Implementation reports on specific tools are linked from:<br>
<a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/implementations/">
https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/implementations/</a><br>
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*To evaluation tool developers*: We encourage evaluation tools and methodologies to implement the individual ACT Rules and to share your implementation report on the WAI website.<br>
To learn about implementing ACT Rules, see:<br>
<a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/report/submit/">https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/report/submit/</a><br>
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Regards,<br>
Wilco Fiers and Kathy Eng, ACT Task Force Co-Facilitators<br>
Daniel Montalvo, W3C Team Contact for ACT Task Force<br>
Shawn Lawton Henry, W3C WAI Education and Outreach Lead<br>
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[1] WCAG 2 is Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2. See: WCAG 2 Overview at <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/">
https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/</a><br>
WCAG 2 Success Criterion 3.1.1: Language of Page <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/language-of-page.html">
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/language-of-page.html</a><br>
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