Re: CFC - Purpose of Controls SC

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I missed the first part of the meeting, but my brief comments about my 
concerns were in the survey. I'll elaborate here.

I do not believe it is appropriate for a single SC in WCAG to take the 
place of a specification. There have been assurances now for 8 months that 
the ARIA COGA Semantics to Enable Personalization proposal would be mature 
enough to fulfill that role in time for WCAG 2.1. Instead, it appears not 
have been updated since April.
The specification remains an influx working draft, and so we are faced 
with a hastily constructed substitute in this SC. The attributes listed in 
the SC draft not only deviate from the list in the draft spec, but 
actually increase the number -- it isn't even a subset. It has clearly not 
been vetted for basic syntax (e.g., "city or locality", "my profile", 
"contact us", etc.), let alone properly normalized (i.e, how does an 
author differentiate the "name" attribute in an input with attribute using 
"name" as  the conventional meaning of a person's name). In short, it 
lacks basic due diligence even as an editorial note. The inference that 
its 140 some-odd attributes are going to be perfected through the public 
comments process is troubling. I believe such effort should be handled by 
the ARIA WG that first published this draft semantics document.

I cannot support this in its current form.

Michael Gower
IBM Accessibility
Research

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From:   Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
To:     WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Date:   2017-08-10 08:22 PM
Subject:        CFC - Purpose of Controls SC



Call For Consensus — ends Monday August 14th at 11:30pm Boston time.

The Working Group has reviewed and approved two new related Success 
Criteria for inclusion in the Editor’s Draft: Purpose of Controls and 
Contextual Information, at AA and AAA respectively, with the goal of 
obtaining additional input external to the working group. This CFC is for 
the AA version of the SC.

Call minutes: https://www.w3.org/2017/08/10-ag-minutes.html#item02


The new SC can be reviewed here, in the context of the full draft: 
https://rawgit.com/w3c/wcag21/support-personalization_ISSUE-6/guidelines/#purpose-of-controls


Please note that an editor’s note will be added to this SC to gather 
feedback on the lengthy list of conventional names before it is published.

If you have concerns about this proposed consensus position that have not 
been discussed already and feel that those concerns result in you “not 
being able to live with” this decision, please let the group know before 
the CfC deadline.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe 

akirkpat@adobe.com
http://twitter.com/awkawk