- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 06:12:28 -0500
- To: Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
- Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
+1 Kindest Regards, Laura On 5/16/17, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com> wrote: > Gregg suggested (correctly, I believe) that the original intent of 1.3.3 and > 1.4.1 is being misunderstood due to the language of the notes. > > The suggestion is to remove the notes for both SC and the explicitly add > “color” to the list of sensory characteristics in 1.3.3: > > 1.3.3 Sensory Characteristics: Instructions provided for understanding and > operating content do not rely solely on sensory characteristics of > components such as shape, size, @@color,@@ visual location, orientation, or > sound. > > Color is clearly a sensory characteristic, so we could also just handle the > addition of “color” in the understanding document but I think that given > that color is explicitly discussed in 1.4.1 it may decrease possible > misunderstandings. > > Step one is to add this to the errata document. Step two would be to > implement the change in the WCAG 2.1 release. > > What do people think? > > Thanks, > AWK > > Andrew Kirkpatrick > Group Product Manager, Accessibility > Adobe > > akirkpat@adobe.com > http://twitter.com/awkawk > -- Laura L. Carlson
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