Re: Possible draft of 3.2.7

AT this point if we address some of the userneeds that would be a win!

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 2:24 AM Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
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> Hi Sarah,
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> My understanding is that at least some of the conventions outlined in the
> definition are not sufficient for the user-need. Happy to be corrected on
> that by others from COGA, but that is what I’ve heard previously.
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> Also, I don’t think we can rely on convention as a measure without some
> sort of catalogue of approved examples. (Conventions vary by person,
> cultural groups, domain knowledge, countries etc.) It wouldn’t just be a
> convention for “interactivity”, in this scenario it needs to be a
> convention of showing more controls, which is more specific.
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> As a side note – the 1st exception included multi-step process so authors
> wouldn’t be penalised for including short-cuts. E.g. the list of emails in
> Gmail might have on-hover short-cuts, but those options are also available
> on the individual email page.
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> Also, the 1st part of the proposal doesn’t restrict the scope to controls
> that appear on-hover/focus. As written it would apply to *all* controls,
> which isn’t the intent.
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> Kind regards,
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> -Alastair
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> *From: *Suzanne Taylor
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> Maybe…
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> *Success Criterion 3.2.7 Temporarily Visible Controls (Level AA):*
> Provide a *visible indicator* that is available without mouse or keyboard
> focus for each control or set of controls, except when:
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>    - The same functionality is available through another control or set
>    of controls on the same screen; *(The COGA guidance indicates that
>    users want to know what’s available to them, so avoiding going through an
>    entire process to find the features is important, so I dropped the
>    multi-step process part of this one.)*
>    - The temporarily visible controls appear with any action on the page
>    (including mouse over) and remain visible for at least 3 seconds
>    - A mechanism is available to make temporarily visible controls
>    persistently visible;
>    - The temporarily visible controls provide keyboard-only functionality
>    and appear on keyboard focus;
>    - The controls are part of a user interface for editing what is shown
>    persistently and the user interface includes a help section that explains
>    this;
>    - Hiding the visible indicator is essential to the purpose of the page.
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> And then perhaps define “visible indicator”:
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> *Visible indicator:* Visuals designed to indicate interactivity through
> either known conventions for indicating interactivity (e.g. outlined
> button, image of a video, profile pic, underlined links, submenu arrows),
> or through new conventions used within a particular set of Web pages (e.g.
> everything interactive within an online game is surrounded by a purple
> halo; everything you can edit in a drawing application has mini mouse
> pointer in the bottom right).
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