- From: Becky Gibson <Becky_Gibson@notesdev.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:30:14 -0500
- To: "WCAG " <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At the December 22, 2005 teleconference I took an action item to create an additional example for success criterion 3.2.2 [1]. Example: A form is provided for creating calendar entries in a web based calendaring and scheduling application. Along with the standard fields for subject, time and location, there is a set of radio buttons to select the type of calendar entry to create. The calendar entry type can be meeting, appointment or reminder. If the user selects the radio for meeting, additional fields are displayed on the page for entering the meeting participants. If the user then selects, reminder, the fields for entering participants are hidden since they are not needed to create a reminder entry. Hiding and showing certain portions of the delivery unit is not a complete change on context since the intent of the form, to create a calendar entry, does not change. As long as the fields which get hidden or displayed are fully accessible to all users, this type of behavior would comply with success criterion 3.2.2. Issue #1661[2] can be closed is this example is accepted. [1] Becky to create example in How to Meet Document for 3.2.2 that explains that hiding and showing content as the result of an input field change is NOT a complete change of context (Calendaring and scheduling example) [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/12/22-wai-wcag-minutes.html#action07] [2] http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/show_bug.cgi?id=1661 Becky Gibson Web Accessibility Architect IBM Emerging Internet Technologies 5 Technology Park Drive Westford, MA 01886 Voice: 978 399-6101; t/l 333-6101 Email: gibsonb@us.ibm.com
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