Error correction and "steps"

Hi Everyone,

I was putting one of the final WCAG 2.2 SCs into github, and realised that having been through that big conversation on 'steps' for redundant entry, we have a whole other SC which also uses it.

In fact, it had a definition of steps that we all apparently agreed! (Towards the end of one of the long meetings in March.) Unfortunately, I had completely forgotten about it.

The discussion on Redundant Entry (without 'steps') is on Tuesday, and I think it's worth bearing Error correction in mind then.

The current PR for Error Correction has removed the term 'steps' from the normative text and most of the understanding doc:
https://raw.githack.com/w3c/wcag/wcag22-error-correction/understanding/22/error-correction-processes.html

Wilco had a concern about things like chat windows, but I think of each chat entry as a "submission" which you are previewing before you send it. If you consider the chat as a process, or part of a process then the chat part would come under "unless the information cannot be modified for logical... reasons"
Changing your previous chat entry would not be logical once the other person has received it.

Apart from that, I'm wondering whether people think that removing steps helps (because we really struggle to define that), or whether it makes the SC wider?

Kind regards,

-Alastair

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