RE: Visual Indicators

“We do not expect end users to dig into code to implement this, but it would be something for a user-agent (e.g. plugin) to take up.”

Being late to the party, I’d like to see a respective sentence to be added in the requirement to be more precise and avoiding ambiguities in interpretation.

Also, I raised the point to add this to requirements for user agents as for instance, the WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide<https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-implementation/> once did and the Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.2<https://w3c.github.io/core-aam/> continues. The fact that the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG)<https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/uaag> evolvement seems to be idle since 2016 does not change this.

Regards
Stefan

From: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2020 4:47 PM
To: Niemann, Gundula <gundula.niemann@sap.com>; David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>
Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Subject: RE: Visual Indicators

Hi Gundula,

I think we are agreeing in general, but there are a couple of things to point out for future, and in relation to other SCs.


> it was clearly stated that the WCAG should not be prescriptive

We do try to avoid being prescriptive about design aspects, but we also have minimum contrast requirements. It is not a binary thing, there are exceptions.


> which contradicts to the below suggestion to determine exactly how a link or button should show their nature.

The suggestion was to treat it like text-spacing, where it is not prescriptive about the design. It asks that if the user adapts the design in a specific way, it does not become unusable.

We do not expect end users to dig into code to implement this, but it would be something for a user-agent (e.g. plugin) to take up. For example, there isn’t a plugin to specifically implement text-spacing, but there are several for changing fonts. I have a dyslexic (aimed) one installed in Chrome which changes the font, which impacts the spacing.

Anyway, we are generally agreeing, I just wanted that to be clear.

Kind regards,

-Alastair