Re: definition for publicly available vocabulary and regions

Lisa,
Given the evolution of the “identify common purpose” (ICP) SC I find myself struggling to understand the differences between that SC and the “contextual information” SC.

1.3.4 currently: In content implemented using markup languages, for each user interface component that serves a purpose identified in the Common Purposes for User Interface Components<https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#commonpurposes> section, that purpose can be programmatically determined.

1.3.5 currently: In content implemented using markup languages, contextual information<https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#dfn-contextual-information> for controls, symbols, and regions can be programmatically determined using a publicly available vocabulary.

Contextual Information definition proposed: Information which clarifies the meaning of an object, the purpose of an object and the object’s relationship with other objects and processes, including identifying the position in a multi step process such as may be identified as breadcrumbs.

“ICP” is asking that certain purposes are programmatically determinable, based on a small list of purposes provided.

Contextual Information is asking for the same information and more, on a set of page content that includes UI Components but also includes symbols and regions, and also requires a publicly available vocabulary is used.  Is that right?

Right off the bat I know that we need to be replacing “controls” with “User Interface Components” because we did so with ICP.

Do we have a sample page (e.g. w3.org) hosted somewhere that shows what would actually need to be done to meet this? I think that would help a lot to understand this SC and the impact of it on authors.


Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe

akirkpat@adobe.com
http://twitter.com/awkawk


From: "lisa.seeman@zoho.com" <lisa.seeman@zoho.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 16:01
To: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Subject: definition for publicly available vocabulary and regions
Resent-From: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Resent-Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 15:57

contextual information<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2FWCAG21%2F%23contextual-information&data=02%7C01%7Cakirkpat%40adobe.com%7C92667ed4b63c426292d208d541a36fc5%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636487092597703696&sdata=QGn2%2Bw1%2BlUl%2B3jLgBg%2F1%2BayRpxwHwQH2lMyDmzBSYsQ%3D&reserved=0>