Re: first pass of autocomplete technique

I've done a second pass with input from John Wilco and Jonathan.

https://github.com/w3c/wcag/blob/tech-autocomplete/
techniques/html/autocomplete.html

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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:35 PM, David MacDonald <david@can-adapt.com>
wrote:

> I'll update... with all of the suggestions and picking through Wilco's
> auto-wcag items...
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> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 7:50 PM, John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'll also add that one of the more important goals is to make the
>> identified inputs Programmatically Determinable. This is achieved by
>> applying the appropriate metadata value(s) defined by the @autocomplete
>> attribute.
>>
>> The "magic" that the @autocomplete attribute achieves is specifically
>> because of this Programmatc determination - the browser does simple pattern
>> matching against a list of values locally stored with the browser, and
>> supplies the appropriate corresponding value when the input is
>> programmatically tagged.
>>
>> It should also be clearly noted that currently neither Edge nor IE
>> support the functionality found in Chrome, Firefox  or Safari with regard
>> to auto-filling the form inputs.
>>
>> JF
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 6:27 PM Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@levelaccess.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> David,
>>>
>>> Thanks for putting this together.  I think we should reference Section 7
>>> <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#input-purposes> of the WCAG standard
>>>  which defines the purposes.  While it could be used for all autocomplete
>>> values in HTML it’s aimed at the ones in our list – so we might want to
>>> clarify that first line.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would also restate “The objective of this technique is to make form
>>> fields easier to fill out and understand.” To something like “The objective
>>> of this technique is to make form fields easier to understand with an added
>>> benefit of making them easier to fill out” since the focus on the SC is on
>>> input purpose to help identify the fields.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There are also some typos.
>>>
>>>    - Familiar
>>>    - Explicitly
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* David MacDonald <david@can-adapt.com>
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 17, 2018 5:37 PM
>>> *To:* WCAG Editors <team-wcag-editors@w3.org>; WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
>>> *Subject:* first pass of autocomplete technique
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just did a first pass of autocomplete technique
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/w3c/wcag/blob/tech-autocomplete/technique
>>> s/html/autocomplete.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
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