Re: Contrast of disabled UI controls

Hi  Jon,
I think the group agrees. Glenda is really looking into this. Today we
agreed that we need another SC not just an extension to 1.4.3 because
there is enough difference.

Wayne

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Jonathan Avila
<jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:
> I wonder if there is an opportunity in WCAG 2.1 to reconsider the exception
> for 1.4.3 with disabled UI controls.  Even though a control may be disable,
> the control will likely be available once the user has entered some text.
> Being able to read the text of the control can in some situations be very
> helpful in figuring out what you need to do to get the control to be
> available.  Other times there is a control that is disabled until all input
> is submitted and the contrast makes it unreadable.  But having access to
> that text to know what the form will do before hand is very important to
> deciding whether a user may want to fill out the form or not.  For example,
> say there is a button that says signup for email which I don’t want to do
> but I must enter data in the fields first before I know what the form is
> asking permission to do.  Sometimes I’ll just enter fake data to see what
> the submit button actually says in order to figure out if I really want to
> fill out the form.
>
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> Jonathan
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Received on Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:53:41 UTC