Re: My Thoughts on User content, 3rd party content and conformance

Hi Gregg,

On this point:

  1.  user entered data is not part of page - and is not covered by WCAG.
I’m not sure what mechanism in WCAG would allow you to differentiate that? (I assume you mean in WCAG 2.x?)
I’d agree that whilst the user is inputting the content, that wouldn’t be covered.
However, once saved and part of the page (for that user and other users), why isn’t that covered?
If there is a way of differentiating in WCAG 3 and putting the responsibility on policy makers, that could be useful (done carefully).
Also, this whole area is a bit of a continuum. For example, you can get a 3rd party service that provides user-reviews. (E.g, on this page<https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/exhipoole.en-gb.html?aid=304142&label=gen173nr-1FCAEoggI46AdIM1gEaFCIAQGYAQm4AQfIAQ_YAQHoAQH4AQyIAgGoAgO4Ao7PrKMGwAIB0gIkMDlkNDVjZGUtMzcyMS00Y2ExLWI0MGQtYzc0OWZkYzMwNDk12AIG4AIB&sid=34aa4e969f3e5910ee318e15b7326e53&all_sr_blocks=22076905_94352111_2_33_0;checkin=2023-06-17;checkout=2023-06-25;dest_id=1098;dest_type=region;dist=0;group_adults=2;group_children=0;hapos=1;highlighted_blocks=22076905_94352111_2_33_0;hpos=1;matching_block_id=22076905_94352111_2_33_0;no_rooms=1;req_adults=2;req_children=0;room1=A%2CA;sb_price_type=total;sr_order=popularity;sr_pri_blocks=22076905_94352111_2_33_0__133918;srepoch=1684744094;srpvid=aefd3b8e6a000038;type=total;ucfs=1&#tab-reviews> select “Guest reviews”).
So that is both delivered by a 3rd party and based on what users have entered. In that example the user-content is simple text, but I’m sure there are others which include more structured text and non-text content.
Cheers,
-Alastair