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WCAG 2.2 status - Visual indicators

From: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 10:07:48 +0000
To: WCAG list <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
CC: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>, Rachael Bradley Montgomery <rachael@accessiblecommunity.org>
Message-ID: <381F2D28-4DA1-42F4-B5F6-49A60D37DC24@nomensa.com>
Hi everyone,

Another SC-specific follow up, this one on Visual indicators.

There are two variations of this, for which the ‘active’ one (where it affects how you design components) is preferred if we can get it right.

The core need is to be able to identify interactive components and know what to do with them, which affects everyone to some degree, but some people with cognitive impairments to a massive degree.

The problem in crafting an SC for this is capture problematic instances, and not capture instances that are not problematic. With something so context dependant, it is difficult!

To provide confidence that the SC works we really need to catalogue plenty of examples. E.g. A list of different UI components and whether they should pass, and whether they do pass according to the SC text.

David started that off in the document, but I thought a landscape orientation would help so I’ve separated that off and done two examples to kick things off:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fw8C-uHkPzI9IH4wWXdzjRmyfxTHNIYX3vk62Xsph4M/edit?usp=sharing


This SC won’t progress without a few people contributing so that we have a robust set of examples demonstrating how to meet (or fail) the SC.

Kind regards,

-Alastair

SC /understanding doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WhZAbswvPHs7A3stfqM_ATsaBHPeGbHtARcmaKMck1U/edit#heading=h.ck57f2kxzytg

Survey: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/Visual_indicators/

Minutes: https://www.w3.org/2020/01/07-ag-minutes.html#item05

Previous minutes: https://www.w3.org/2019/12/17-ag-minutes.html#item03

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