RE: Visual indicators

+1 to Rachael’s point. Not every process one completes online is legal or financial in nature, but requires equal access all the same. Say there’s a cooking website with a step-based flow that allows you to input ingredients and equipment you have at home and returns recipes for you based on what you have. There isn’t any financial or legal implication for the user there, but accessibility is improved just the same by adhering to the same SC. I’m not endorsing the SC as-is, only noting that I don’t see a reason to limit the scope of the SC along financial and legal lines.

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From: Rachael Bradley Montgomery <rachael@accessiblecommunity.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 2:06 PM
To: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Visual indicators

Hello David,

I personally (no chair hat) don't support limiting the scope of this to the legal or financial transactions. I would rather it stay in line with hidden controls which scopes to "Controls needed to progress or complete a process..."

Regards,

Rachael



On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 3:09 PM David MacDonald <david@can-adapt.com<mailto:david@can-adapt.com>> wrote:
HI All

At the end of the meeting today, I described the history of the visual indicators SC and how we are on the edge of the consensus couple of weeks ago and then splintered out into numerous iterations.  It sounds like there was just a misunderstanding about this previous version and COGA appears to be in agreement with the language.

I've made a clean copy and have updated the understanding document. Of course there would be discussion about exemptions in the definition of process but I think were pretty close to something that is tight enough that authors would know when it applies and when it doesn't apply.

Lisa will be getting some additional examples this week to build out the understanding a little bit further. I think the text in this version is something that we may be able to rally around and get consensus. Understanding that we would want to go further once personalization is mature which would be in the next major version of WCAG.

I've made a copy of the previous versions and we have a full archive of all comments and discussions and versions leading up to this point for anybody who wants them.

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