- From: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 10:42:32 -0500
- To: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
- Cc: "w3c-waI-gl@w3. org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
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> So you would call the last name “family-name”, the credit card number “cc-number”? No, I'm saying that the magical mapping documents will map it. > Even if it is a standard name for each purpose rather than the token, it would mean you can’t use “Your name” as the label for a field, you’d have to use “Name”, even if there were three different fields asking for different people. No, I'm saying that the magical mapping documents will map it. Cheers, David MacDonald *Can**Adapt* *Solutions Inc.* Tel: 613.235.4902 LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmacdonald100> twitter.com/davidmacd GitHub <https://github.com/DavidMacDonald> www.Can-Adapt.com <http://www.can-adapt.com/> * Adapting the web to all users* * Including those with disabilities* If you are not the intended recipient, please review our privacy policy <http://www.davidmacd.com/disclaimer.html> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:37 AM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote: > *> *> it would limit the terms that people could use in labels, which was > not acceptable. > > > > > No, it would cause them to have to add metadata to provide that proper > "purpose" term. > > > > So you would call the last name “family-name”, the credit card number > “cc-number”? > > > > If you mix tokens and labels you really make it difficult to make > understandable labels. > > > > Even if it is a standard name for each purpose rather than the token, it > would mean you can’t use “Your name” as the label for a field, you’d have > to use “Name”, even if there were three different fields asking for > different people. > > > > Once we started going through the items, it wasn’t practical to simply use > those as the AccName. > > > > -Alastair >
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