Defining views

[JJdeGroot]

Session description

Defining what constitutes a view has been tried over the years. In this session, we will re-open the discussion.

Web page in WCAG 2.2

a non-embedded resource obtained from a single URI using HTTP plus any other resources that are used in the rendering or intended to be rendered together with it by a user agent

Views in WCAG 3

Views include all content visually and programmatically available without a substantive change. Conceptually, views correspond to the definition of a web page as used in WCAG 2, but are not restricted to content meeting that definition. For example, a view could be considered a “screen” in a mobile app or a layer of web content – such as a modal.

Interpretation of Web Terminology in a Non-web Context

A small number of success criteria are written to apply to “a set of web pages” or “multiple web pages” and depend upon all pages in the set to share some characteristic or behavior. Since the unit of conformance in WCAG 2 is a single web page, the task force agreed that the equivalent unit of conformance for non-web documents is a single document. It follows that an equivalent unit of evaluation for a “set of web pages” would be a “set of documents”. Since it isn't possible to unambiguously carve up non-web software into discrete pieces, a single “web page” was equated to a “software program” and a “set of web pages” was equated to a “set of software programs”.

Session goal

Getting closer to the definition of views

Additional session chairs (Optional)

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Who can attend

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IRC channel (Optional)

#views

Other sessions where we should avoid scheduling conflicts (Optional)

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Agenda for the meeting.

1. Web page definition (WCAG 2.2)
2. View definition (WCAG 3)
3. Web page mapping (WCAG2ICT)
4. Defining view

Links to calendar

• 2024-09-25, 11:15 - 12:15

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[JJdeGroot]

Meeting minutes: https://www.w3.org/2024/09/25-views-minutes.html

Slides: https://janjaap.com/tpac2024/