Agree.
Failures are NEVER normative. And they are never new.
Failures are simply documenting things that are ALREADY failures of SC. They just document things that are commonly done that would fail to meet WCAG to make them obvious to those who do not see them.
Failures can never add nor subtract from WCAG. Their full name is “Common failures of WCAG SC”.
The only way to add something to WCAG or make something a failure that is not already a failure is to look to future versions as Josh points out.
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> On Apr 30, 2016, at 1:42 AM, Joshue O Connor <josh@interaccess.ie> wrote:
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> Yes. As failures are hard to mint, and David is calling out a need for more, my 'warning' suggestion is maybe a way of meeting the need without doing normative or quasi normative work. So this suggestion would be firmly in guidance and non normative space.
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> Tbh, that we don't have lots of hardcore failures may also be a good sign rather than indicate some dearth in WCAG. FWIW, I'm not convinced this thread does call out a substantial problem but if there is real need we will aim to address it.
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> Regarding WCAG.next topics, in general things we cannot incorporate in current work can be looked at in future versions.
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> On 30 Apr 2016, at 00:44, "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org <mailto:jjwhite@ets.org>> wrote:
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> From: Joshue O Connor [mailto:josh@interaccess.ie]
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> I wonder if we could have a 'warning' category? So it's not a hard fail, with all the baggage of gaining consensus, but a common anti pattern that could cause known a11y issues?
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> I thought we were only talking about what should belong in non-normative material in this discussion, yet some people keep referring to WCAG Next, so I really don’t understand what is being proposed.
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