RE: Question on techniques for Identify Common Purpose

As a further comment based on the discussion at the meeting, I can think of no reason why the following wouldn't qualify as implementations collectively meeting the CR exit criteria:

  *   A test page that uses all of the HTML autocomplete tokens, together with the availability of user agents or assistive technologies (including browser extensions, as appropriate) that together support all of them.
  *   Other Web pages that use a subset of the HTML autocomplete tokens (as appropriate for the forms which they provide). They don't need collectively to implement all of the tokens, as this is achieved by the test page.
  *   Demonstration that the user agents/AT combinations supporting the autocomplete feature interoperate with the sample pages.

From: White, Jason J [mailto:jjwhite@ets.org]
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 9:55 AM
To: Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@levelaccess.com>; Joshue O Connor - InterAccess <josh@interaccess.ie>; WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Cc: John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>; lisa.seeman <lisa.seeman@zoho.com>
Subject: RE: Question on techniques for Identify Common Purpose



From: Jonathan Avila [mailto:jon.avila@levelaccess.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 9:04 AM
If the div is an input that uses contentEditable or some other type of input control like a birthday chooser, etc. that falls as input and has a mapped purpose in autocomplete values of 5.2 then it would need to define the purpose - but the autocomplete attribute would not be appropriate.  I'd imagine you would need to define the purpose programmatically via techniques related to schema.org - otherwise if it is not be input then it would not fall under this SC at level aA.
[Jason] However, techniques related to the use of metadata to specify purpose using vocabulary mapped to HTML5 autocomplete tokens are not accessibility-supported yet. The user won't benefit, whereas they arguably will in some cases if the HTML autocomplete attribute is used on a standard form field. This may be enough to satisfy Candidate Recommendation exit criteria in connection with accessibility support, but it can hardly be regarded as a satisfactory situation either, as the benefit to the user (in so far as there is one) only accrues if HTML autocomplete is chosen as the implementation mechanism.

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