Re: Pre-CFC - Redundant entry

Hey Alastair,
This is a definite improvement, but it is putting a lot of weight on this
word "navigation", potentially stretching it outside of its common-sense
use. Is submitting a form truly a type of navigation? I hesitate to say yes
to that. Similarly if you have an accordion form; all on one page, but with
different parts of it split up over different parts of an accordion. I'm
not sure that's best described as "navigation".

A conservative reading of this definition would allow someone to argue that
unless something in the navigator API
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator> changes,
whatever is used to show/hide sections of a process doesn't count as a
step.

What makes defining this so difficult is that WCAG doesn't have the concept
of page state <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-EM/#states>. This was a problem
for the definition of SPAs too. Otherwise you could define it in terms of
"A step in a process is any page state that includes user interface
components that are used as part of a process". I think the right solution
to this would be to define page state and make "step" a type of "page
state", when that page state is used in a process.


W



On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 5:27 PM Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
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> Hi Wilco & everyone,
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> This conversation stalled a bit, is this definition for ‘steps in a
> process’ ok?
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> Added here:
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> https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/1046/commits/80dea318ef8c6f65b66d2022fbb06005a5ca74c0
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> If so, we can go to CFC on this one.
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> Cheers,
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> -Alastair
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> *From:* Alastair Campbell
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> - "user-actions presented": I don't think a "user action" is something
> that can be "presented", you can present content that users can interact
> with, but I don't think you can actually present the action itself
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> Yea, I wasn’t happy with that, but I was trying to keep fairly close to
> the process definition we have. User actions are the things done as part of
> a process… still thinking about that.
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> - "presented separately": this can mean a number of things. Form controls
> in a fieldset can be said to be "presented separately", but that doesn't
> seem to be the intended meaning
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> When we discussed it on a call, the main thing was that you had to
> navigate between steps. That doesn’t mean just page by page, but we wanted
> to include accordion type forms as well.
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> How about:
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> *“Step a in a process:* a set of user-interface controls to achieve
> particular user-actions, where navigation is required to reach another set
> of user-interface controls in the same *process*"
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> Cheers,
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> -Alastair
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*Wilco Fiers*
Axe for Web product owner - Co-facilitator WCAG-ACT - Chair ACT-R