Re: Prohibiting authors from disabling Pinch Zoom as failure for Reflow 1.4.10

>
> I would have thought that a in a conformance statement you would need to
> specify which methods you are relying on, and those could include
> user-agent end methods.


Yep! But conformance as we've discussed it so far doesn't mandate that you
need to use the methods outlined by Silver as recommended for meeting a
guideline, so you can create your own methods to do so. Silver would,
however, recommend methods (as available) to meet a guideline.

-Shawn

On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 7:40 PM Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
wrote:

> > Identify Input Purpose
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#identify-input-purpose> doesn't include
> anything about user need, only requiring that "The purpose of each input
> field collecting information about the user *can be programmatically
> determined*…"
>
> Indeed, it would be quite a big change going from content-based
> requirement to user-need based requirements.
>
> [emphasis mine], which opens up the ability for developers to meet the
> guidance by using a method where we don't have a list of assistive tech
> making use of it.
>
> In a WCAG 2.x context that SC wouldn’t have been included if there was no
> assistive tech available, but in Silver I wouldn’t (necessarily) assume
> that would be the same?
>
> If you lead with a user-requirement as the ‘guideline’, then it’s easier
> to show gaps.
>
> E.g. “User does not have to remember personal information when filling in
> forms”, has methods including browser-tools and autocomplete. You get an
> interesting set of levels because:
>
>    - A browser can fill in some fields without ‘autocomplete’ included
>    because it has heuristics, but those can be thrown off by the content (e.g.
>    random label names).
>    - The browser tools are more reliable with autocomplete, and that’s
>    the authors responsibility.
>
>
>
> > what level of support would "graduate" a method to recommended for
> meeting a guideline and how we might do so in the most effective way.
>
> I would have thought that a in a conformance statement you would need to
> specify which methods you are relying on, and those could include
> user-agent end methods.
>
> Perhaps also specify some at the different levels, e.g. bronze for relying
> on browser heuristic, silver for also using autocomplete.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Alastair
>