Unsupported Autofill values and Common Purpose

Hi All

I think we are in a very difficult position. It appears many of the HTML
5.2 autofill tokens are not supported by browsers (and there are currently
no plugins that work) Furthermore, some of them might disappear from the
next version of HTML. One reason we decided to reference this list of over
50 tokens instead of the shorter list that we had internally was because we
believed they wouldn't have gotten into the HTML 5 spec without support.
Apparently, this was a mistaken assumption because only about 18 out of
over 50 are supported.

So now we are in a position where we may be requiring authors for the next
several years to implement tokens that have no support that might disappear
in the next version of HTML. There is currently a new COGA sec being
developed by Lisa and Richard that uses these values (referenced in last
week's minutes). We've also been told by the COGA team that the existing
success criterion has lost 95% of its existing intention.

As I see it we have several choices before us:

1. Remove the success criterion for 2.1 and wait until the next version of
WCAG where technology is more stable things settle down. Maybe at that
point the new specification being developed by Lisa and Richard will be
stable and there will be AT to support it.
2. Go back to an internal list which is short and only includes the
supported values such as first name, last name etc. this may send us back
to another round of CR. Or perhaps we've got it in time... I don't know.
3. press forward and to face the music

My Preference would be #2.

Cheers,
David MacDonald



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