Re: SC 1.3.4 - to keep or not?

Hi John, Katie,

John - I know it *could* apply to autofil, but currently it doesn’t.

Katie, sorry I missed your suggestion, lots of long emails recently.

On the topic, the COGA TF brought many, many needs to the table that resulted in around 30 potential SC.

No, this doesn’t address them all, and is *very* limited for personalisation. However, it does fulfil *a* need that severely impacts people with cognitive impairments (e.g. credit card entry).

If you don’t believe me, please ask Lisa or EA who were on the call today and were very enthusiastic about it.

Plus, the impact on developers is hardly huge (for the autofil one). It is a few attributes that Google already promotes as best-practice. This would give it extra leverage.
Cheers,

-Alastair

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Subject: Re: SC 1.3.4 - to keep or not?

Well, I think changing the SC to autocomplete was brought up by me.

But in any case, I am not for it personally, for the reasons I identified in the other email thread called 'Use of ARIA to satisfy 'Identify common purpose' SC' - it will not address the original user need brought to us by COGA, at all - and it adds a burden for developers - without it going in the direction of the technology that we 'do' need to inject accessibility metadata for personalization into web content.

We can suggest authors use the features of HTML 5+ that were designed for and by default do improve accessibility for different populations. The HTML  autocomplete attribute is helpful for all in several ways, but mandating its use as a requirement (and for the wrong reasons IMO) I am not sure is the best idea.


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On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com<mailto:acampbell@nomensa.com>> wrote:
Hi Everyone,

I had two relevant discussions about this today, firstly with the COGA TF, then with the few people who joined the AG call out of habit 😉

The feeling from the COGA TF was that 1.3.4 is a useful SC to have, and helps with an issue that dis-proportionally impacts people with cognitive impairments.

However, it is not (as I hoped) a useful starting point for personalisation, partly because the current tools do not support autofill attributes to apply icons.

Lisa: please correct this if I’m not conveying that properly.

Therefore John’s proposal to rename the handle of the SC should be taken on to avoid confusion, hopefully as an editorial change.

As it is completely focused on autocompleting inputs, I’d favour:

  *   Auto-complete​

But I’m not wedded to that term…

Cheers,

-Alastair