RE: How did this one slip by

  *   the author has no idea if one user or another is filling out the page — there would be no difference in what they did in coding their page
One thing I believe the wording was trying to avoid was something like a human resources system where the user may be entering information about another person. Or for example, someone purchasing an airline ticket for another family member.

Jonathan

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I guess since

  1.  the author has no idea if one user or another is filling out the page — there would be no difference in what they did in coding their page
  2.  I  am recommending no action
it is moot for 2.2

For WCAG3 however - we should either rethink —  or we should add a note explaining exactly why this only applies to the user    (or even how you can do it for the user and not have it be available for any other person too?)

best
g





On Jun 11, 2025, at 1:57 PM, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk<mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk>> wrote:

On 11/06/2025 21:03, RTF-Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:

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?

No, this was done on purpose. I'll leave it to Alastair and co to dig through the minutes that led to this, but in short it was a way to limit side effects of using autocomplete in HTML (currently the only realistic solution to address this) and having a browser autocomplete things that are not about the user themselves ...

P
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