Re: making the draft for CR accurate

Hi Jonathan


Take the problem of logging in. 


Right now, many people with cognitive disabilities can not log in to their health care provider to make a doctors appointment and cannot access critical services. We know this, but WCAG 2.1 will make no mention of this problem anywhere. There will be no techniques to support it. (Texthelp found an 80% change in how many people managed the login when they changed to one of our suggested techniques.)


How on earth can we claim minimal accommodation is provided when following these guidelines when millions of people can not even access the site? 


Two the other part of your question, I agree there are SC's that seem like placeholders for something useful. I am not sure that any of the SC for Guideline 3.1 " Readable: Make text content readable and understandable" at A or double AA levels make any difference what so ever. But then they are for screen reader users so maybe they do. When testing I have never noticed any effect. There is some benefit from keyboard accessibility and alt text for people with cognitive disabilities, however  this is usually not the key issue. The key issues only start to be addressed at AAA and many of them, are not mentioned at all anywhere.

All the best

Lisa Seeman

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---- On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:03:26 +0200 Jonathan Avila<jon.avila@levelaccess.com> wrote ---- 

  Lisa, The text says it makes it more accessible to wider group   It does not say fully accessible to everyone although that is the end goal.    Please ask yourself if any of A or AA criteria in WCAG 2 increase access to users with cognitive and learning disabilities.   If they don’t then perhaps we are asking authors to implement things that are not needed.   Are there criteria in WCAG that could be removed because they are not increasing access to users with these types of disabilities? 
 
 Jonathan
 
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 On Jan 25, 2018, at 10:44 AM, lisa.seeman <lisa.seeman@zoho.com> wrote:
 
 
     I think the draft for CR has to change the introduction:  
 
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 Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, and combinations of these. These guidelines address accessibility of web content on desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. Following these guidelines will also often make your Web content more usable to users in general.
 
 
 to 
 
 
  Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, and combinations of these. These guidelines address accessibility of web content on desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices and begins  to  address  learning disabilities and cognitive limitations at conformance level AAA, 
 
 
 
 
 I am not sure if consider low vision to be addressed or "begins to addressed"  
 
 All the best
 
 Lisa Seeman
 
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