6.2. EARL Report

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<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:earl="http://www.w3.org/TR/EARL10/">
 <earl:Tool rdf:about="http://www.tawdis.net/#taw">
   <earl:name>TAW v3</earl:name>
   <earl:platform>Windows XP 5.1</earl:platform>
 </earl:Tool>
   
 <earl:Person rdf:about="#person">
   <earl:name></earl:name>
   <earl:email></earl:email>
 </earl:Person>
  
 <earl:WebContent rdf:about="#webcontent">
    <earl:reprOf rdf:resource="http://www.fundacionctic.org"/>
   <earl:date>2005-04-20T14:39Z</earl:date> 
 </earl:WebContent>

 <earl:Assertion rdf:about="WCAG1.0#1.1">
   <earl:subject rdf:resource="webcontent"/>
   <earl:validity rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/EARL/nmg-strawman#cannotTell"/>
   <earl:mode rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/EARL/nmg-strawman#automatic"/>
   <earl:testcase rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#tech-text-equivalent"/>
   <earl:assertedBy rdf:resource="http://www.tawdis.net/#taw"/>
 </earl:Assertion>

EARL 1.0 (Evaluation and Report Language) is a general-purpose language developed by the W3C for expressing test results.

In this case the report contains the result of the accessiblity test according to the guidelines defined by WCAG 1.0. The EARL report is a text file in XML format, unlike the rest of HTML-based reports.

The EARL report has a group of labels to identify the tool, the person who is performing the analysis, the tested content (WebContent) and also, assertions which contain the result of the test performed.

An EARL assertion has 5 properties:

• subject (what is going to be tested): The Web page identified by WebContent.
• testcase (which test has been performed): Each checkpoint from the WCAG 1.0.
• validity (which is the result obtained): The value of this result (pass, fail, not tested, can not tell, not applicable) could be modified by the user from the Validity level submenu of the contextual menu or from the Checkpoint option of the main menu.
• assertedBy (Who does the assertion): At the beginning, the test is performed by the tool, but if the validity level is modified manually, it is assigned to the person who is doing the test.
• mode (how the result has been obtained): At the beginning, the mode is automatic as these results have been obtained by the tool. When the validity level of an accessibility issue is modified by a person, the mode will be changed to manual.

Setting options:

In the setting options there are two areas to introduce the name of the person who is performing the test, and his/her e-mail address to identify who has performed the manual checks.