Re: Dealy in "Common Purposes"

> we can share our mapping file in xml or json.

Yes that would be helpful.

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 12:48 PM, lisa.seeman <lisa.seeman@zoho.com> wrote:

> Hi David
>
> Aas an implementer, we have mapping files. so we implement with our
> prefered technology and just map any other implementation to the same
> thing. This is trivial for programmers. We do not need to make a
> convoluted API just tell them exactly what to do and they can implement it
> as they want.
> A month ago I added the values in the understanding section that show
> exactly how to implement each item in our list in the three
> recommended technologies. I believe it is at https://github.com/w3c/
> wcag21/blob/lseeman-understanding-idetify-comoon-
> pourpose/understanding/21/identify-common-purpose.html . However, if that
> is not enough we can share our mapping file in xml or json.
>
> please let me know if there is anything is unclear. We can also have a
> short call and I can explain anything that is missing
> All the best
>
> Lisa Seeman
>
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>
>
>
> ---- On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:25:03 +0200 *David
> MacDonald<david100@sympatico.ca <david100@sympatico.ca>>* wrote ----
>
> Hi Alastair
>
>
> > With it focusing on HTML’s autofill attributes, there has been
> widespread browser support for years
>
> Yes absolutely... further in
> ​my
>  email I suggested that we consider limiting the SC to HTML.
> ​With each of Gregg's questions the only clear answer I was able to come
> up with was HTML autofill.​ However, Léonie is making a good case against
> referencing HTML directly and sticking with our list in the spec... I think
> Lisa would rather also prefer our list instead of referencing HMTL 5.2 ...
> so ...
>
> Lisa
>
> I would like to see a more robust answer to Gregg's questions other than
> implementations are in place and coming... so far I haven't seen an
> explanation of how this will work, and the implementations I've seen seem
> to be general personalization widgets rather than an implementation of a
> set of form fields with a mapping functionality back to our common
> purposes...
>
> Here are Gregg's questions:
>
> =====
>
>  how are different languages and different taxonomies being handled?
>
> how does the AT find the mapping of new terms back to the definitions in
> WCAG?
>
>    - how does AT know the format of the map?
>    - it is machine readable?
>    - how does the AT find that map?
>
> =====
>
> Are you saying
> schema
> ​,​
> microdata
> ​,​
>  COGA attributes will all map back to our numbered list
> ​ in these mapping documents that sit in the AT? If there are currently no
> implementations of this, is it reasonable to at least provide a step by
> step description of how it will work once implemented.
>
>
> Cheers,
> David MacDonald
>
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> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 4:41 AM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
> wrote:
>
> *> *I share Gregg's concerns about the speculative nature of an SC that
> has no existing AT to make use of it
>
>
>
> Huh? With it focusing on HTML’s autofill attributes, there has been
> widespread browser support for years:
>
> https://caniuse.com/#search=autofil
>
>
>
> Lisa also posted about a couple user-agent side implementations of the
> meta-data aspects, and 5 sites that are or will be using the more extended
> set now.
>
>
>
> Microdata is also standardised, but we seem to have dropped the
> non-autofil purposes, so I’ll stop there.
>
>
>
> -Alastair
>
>
>
>
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