Re: Updates to Understanding 1.4.11 part 2

I can live with that.

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On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 5:12 AM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
wrote:

> *> *I'm nervous about requiring momentary transient states to pass. Its
> new territory for WCAG. It hard on testers and hard on developers, for
> little good.
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> It is also quite rare to find, you’ll see from the examples that only the
> default (un-styled) link and a quiz had ‘active’ states.
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> The default button does have an active state, but does not rely on colour:
> The text moves down-right to create a 3d effect.
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> As soon as you give a link a default colour, the ‘active’ and visited
> states disappear (unless you set :active :visited, or only use a:link). In
> general people use things like:
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> a {color:blue;}
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> So those states disappear, and aren’t really missed.
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> Given that the intent is: “If you provide meaningful information via
> states then make sure people can discern them”, I don’t have a problem with
> adding something like what you proposed, how about:
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> "momentary transition states such as 'active' are hard to register
> visually for all users and are generally not considered to convey
> information required for that component."
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> I added ‘generally’ because there could be niche cases like the quiz where
> it does try to convey information in that state.
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> But for the very accessibility/usability-aware, I don’t really want to
> punish people who provide hints with :visited, conveying that in a way
> other than using purple is not often recognised.
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> -Alastair
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