Age of the site and the number of pages

[mgifford]

WCAG-EM considers "its size, its complexity, and which technologies it uses (e.g. HTML, WAI-ARIA, PDF, etc.);" but what about age?

If a website was launched a few months ago, and there already was one done when the site was launched, great. A smaller sampling of pages can be scoped. It might even be useful to target new pages or new content types vs what was already reviewed not too long ago.

However, if it is a site that is say still running Drupal 7, and is well out of date, then what? What if there are parts that are out of date (a problem I've mentioned in another issue).

Could we suggest that whatever the sampling size is, that the older the site is the more samples are required? HTML, browsers, standards, all change.

[mgifford]

Just noting 4.3 Step 3: Select a Representative Sample does cover much of this:

Age of the digital product — older digital products tend to have more (often not easy to find) content with different levels of complexity, consistency, and design and development processes, so that a larger sample set is typically required to evaluate.

Hmm.. Maybe this should be closed. I touch on other material, but not I have a clear idea of what to change.

[mgifford]

Hmm, maybe we could create a simple tool like this one:
https://mgifford.github.io/wsg-priority/

That just takes those values and makes some suggestions based on the options selected. Saying that the size of the sample depends on "many factors" is not very clear guidance.