RE: Question: Enough time guideline

As:


  *   alerts that always have to be dismissed would seriously slow down many high-intensity tasks (like email processing);
  *   but alerts that always disappear will be a problem for some users with cognitive and learning disabilities;
  *   and whatever value is set before auto-disappearance, it will be much too quick for some users;

I'm sure that Patrick's proposal that:
"the site should provide some global setting for users to disable auto-hiding of alerts, so that the alerts could do
the current hiding, but that a user who has problems with this can switch it off";

is the way to resolve these contradictions.

The SC, understanding texts and techniques should all be written in a way that both allows and encourages this type of solution. I'm afraid I haven't had an opportunity to see exactly what needs to be/can be done to achieve this.

Best regards

Mike

From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk]
Sent: 01 March 2017 14:42
To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: Re: Question: Enough time guideline

On 01/03/2017 14:33, Sailesh Panchang wrote:
> Patrick, On a reading of SC 2.2.1 or 2.2.2 I do not feel the issue
> is addressed directly. This is not a case of 'For each time limit
> that is set by the content' covered by SC 2.2.1. This is a poorly
> implemented alert dialog where the alert text appears only
> momentarily. There is no time limit that can be extended / suppressed
> etc. Thanks, bSailesh

Splitting hairs perhaps, but an alert that appears and then disappears
has, in fact, a "time limit set by the content" in that sense. So I'd
still maintain that in spirit, this scenario is covered, but agree it
should be more explicitly addressed in the understanding document as an
example (perhaps as a failure example - the alert appearing and then
disappearing, with the suggestion to simply remove the automatic
hiding/disappearing and to leave it visible until the user dismises it
explicitly with a "Close" or "Got it..." type control; failing that,
suggesting that the site should provide some global setting for users to
disable auto-hiding of alerts, so that the alerts could do the current
hiding, but that a user who has problems with this can switch it off)

P
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