How did this one slip by

I  was just reading  1.3.5

this says collecting information ABOUT the user.   Is that what we mean????  
Don’t we mean  FROM the user? 

Gregg



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How to Meet Identify Input Purpose
 <https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/quickref/#identify-input-purpose>(Level AA)
The purpose of each input field collecting information about the user can be programmatically determined <https://w3c.github.io/wcag/guidelines/22/#dfn-programmatically-determinable> when:

The input field serves a purpose identified in the Input Purposes for user interface components section <https://w3c.github.io/wcag/guidelines/22/#input-purposes>; and
The content is implemented using technologies with support for identifying the expected meaning for form input data.