Re: SC 1.3.4 - Understanding doc update

Alastair,

As I said before, you did a great job starting of this new Understanding
content. As I wasn't sure we were going to go this route, I didn't suggest
anything - but I'll take a look again. But it does seem that there is this
security risk with autocomplete that may have us rethinking this SC
again.....

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On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
wrote:

> *AWK wrote:*
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> The ally-resources.com site shows one example of this, but doesn’t cover
> all HTML autocomplete attribute values though.
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> AC: I think it uses the coga or aui attribute though?  Not to be picky,
> but if the implementation *sites* we have use the autocomplete attribute,
> that won’t match the a11y-resources UA. It’s an easy(ish) change, but would
> need to be made soon, I assume?
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> AWK: I don’t agree on calling it “autocomplete” as that is tied to the
> attribute name for HTML and we hope to not only allow other attributes at
> some point in HTML but also other technologies.
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> AC: Fair enough, happy to change it.
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> AWK: I also am not thrilled with the idea of relegating this SC to “input
> assistance”, even though this is part of the benefit it isn’t everything,
> and it is paired with 1.3.5 which is not about input assistance at all.
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> AC: For the current SC, the input assistance is the primary thing, as it
> is the benefit we can show now.
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> *Katie wrote: *
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> But we could also just suggest they use Autocomplete for this purpose
> without an SC)
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> AC: Do you mean ‘they’, as-in: an education process for end-users to learn
> about autocomplete in the browser? That’s useful, but we would also need
> the sites to use it. If the authors don’t add the meta-data, the results
> are rather hit & miss. There still needs to be a requirement to use the
> attributes.
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> Katie: We will need to be explaining to people why we have this SC and who
> it is for.
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> Are there any additions you could suggest?
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> https://alastairc.ac/tmp/autocomplete.html
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> Thanks,
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> -Alastair
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