Your comments on WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft of December, 2007

Dear Mike Sullivan,

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Gregg Vanderheiden, WCAG WG Co-Chair
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On behalf of the WCAG Working Group

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Comment 1: F52: Is "Prior warning" really OK here?
Source: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2008Feb/0144.html
(Issue ID: 2590)
Status: VERIFIED / ACCEPTED
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Original Comment:
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The title and body of F52 suggest that opening a new window
immediately onLoad is acceptable if prior warning is given. ("Failure
of Success Criterion 3.2.1 due to opening a new window as soon as a
new page is loaded without prior warning"). However, this is mapped
back to "3.2.1 On Focus", which makes no mention of a prior warning
exception. Since the next criterion, "3.2.2 On Input" does explicitly
give a prior warning exception, I read WCAG2 to be saying change of
context is never allowable "on focus", and only allowable "on input"
if prior warning is given. If this is the correct reading of WCAG2,
then F52 is incorrect in saying that prior warning would allow you to
open a new window when a page loads. If this is an incorrect reading
of WCAG2, then the prior warning exception should be stated explicitly
in SC 3.2.1 as it is in SC 3.2.2.

Proposed Change:
Either:

a. Add a "prior warning" clause to SC 3.2.1, or

b. Remove the "prior warning" clause from F52.

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Response from Working Group:
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We have removed the "prior warning" clause from F52.

Received on Tuesday, 11 March 2008 00:20:42 UTC