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Re: Is Remembering your email, address, and name a cognitive tests - response to wcag 2.2 issue

From: Rain Michaels <rainb@google.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 12:28:36 -0700
Message-ID: <CAJO5HusYLnnFn2JBuH4XWk-xgme1wcF_nkpEWS=E5eeO+1meng@mail.gmail.com>
To: Lisa Seeman <lisa1seeman@gmail.com>
Cc: public-cognitive-a11y-tf <public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org>
+1 I like this additional context

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 9:08 AM Lisa Seeman <lisa1seeman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks
>
> https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/1901 starts:
>
> *Remembering your email, address, and name are not cognitive tests. This
> is suggested by ...*
>
> *The common identifiers name, e-mail, and phone number are not considered
> cognitive function tests as they are personal to the user and consistent
> across websites;*
>
> *There would be a requirement from 1.3.5: Identify Input Purpose
> <https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/identify-input-purpose.html> to
> have autocomplete......*
>
>
> On the call today  we wanted to respond as follows:
>
> *COGA: Remembering your email, address, and name are tests of  cognitive
> ability.  In fact they are just the type of test in a MCI mini mental test.
> They may be allowed for authentication as they can be copy pasted from a
> notepad , or filled in automatically by autocomplete. *
>
>
> *Any objections?*
>
> *Lisa*
>
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