Re: Should we require all functionality to be operable with pointer?

Perhaps its as easy as proposing a new Success Criteria... How about this?

    All functionality <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#functiondef> of the
content is operable with a pointer.

With our definition of pointer including mouse, touch, pen, as per the
mobile calls.

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On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
wrote:

> On 04/07/2016 12:55, David MacDonald wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.davidmacd.com/blog/should-WCAG-require-all-functionality-by-mouse.html
>>
>
> Coincidentally, I've said as much in the past.
>
> https://twitter.com/patrick_h_lauke/status/602418310903365632
>
> WCAG assumes that things will work with a mouse (because of course that's
> how developers build it), so that is tacitly taken as the status quo which
> needs to be expanded to then also cover keyboard.
>
> So fundamentally yes, I believe an explicit SC that requires
> functionality/content to be accessible to users with a mouse/other types of
> pointer is needed. This also dovetails with how we expanded our proposed
> touch/activation target SC to cover not just touch targets, but general
> pointer targets too.
>
> Exceptions would include controlled environments where there is no
> mouse/pointer, e.g. a point-of-sales or ATM that only has a (physical or
> on-screen) keyboard.
>
> (Incidentally, this really makes me wish the TFs were set up more along
> the lines of "Input TF", since that's what this really falls under - so the
> "mobile" moniker for this TF is a bit loose).
>
> P
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