RE: Guideline 2.6 text

I don’t think using words like “appropriate” provides much of a guideline, so I’m not a fan of either of these.  I think Andrew’s roughly captures the point, but I’d suggest going instead down a path similar to GL 2.3, Seizures, and stating what we know not to do.  Maybe something like:

“Sensors: Do not use device sensors in ways that presume physical capabilities of the user.”

Note I dropped “additional” and “input”.  Neither of these helps the handle at all.

Katie, your version I think is not the right message.  That is, the guideline should not be to use sensors because there’s no accessibility reason for that.

Steve

From: Katie Haritos-Shea [mailto:ryladog@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2018 10:52 PM
To: Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Guideline 2.6 text

Weak.

Suggest: Guideline: Sensor Inputs

Provide additional optional functionality using device sensors when appropriate




On Jan 9, 2018 10:42 PM, "Andrew Kirkpatrick" <akirkpat@adobe.com<mailto:akirkpat@adobe.com>> wrote:
Thoughts on this?
http://rawgit.com/w3c/wcag21/2.6GL/guidelines/index.html#additional-sensor-inputs


Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe

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