- From: Guy Hickling <guy.hickling@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 16:39:55 +0100
- To: WAI Interest Group discussion list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
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Jan, SC2.4.13 is, actually, not the same thing, as it is Level AAA. There were originally two versions of this SC, at AA and AAA. Just keeping the AAA version means all the millions of websites that work to AA level won't look at it, they just consider AAA criteria as out of scope. So, of no use to people with vision impairments who want to see all websites, not just the very few who go to AAA! To clarify, back at the end of 2020, we had 2.4.11 Focus Appearance (Minimum) at AA level, and 2.4.12 Focus Appearance (Enhanced) at AAA. They had almost identical wording, except that the AAA one said the indicator should be 2 pixels thick (as 2.4.13 does today), but the AA version said 1 pixel. (And the AA one had an additional clause as well about contrast with surrounding colours.) So a bit like the colour contrast SCs, with 4.5 to 1 at AA and 7 to 1 at AAA. And that remained the position for a long time. See https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/WD-WCAG22-20210521/#focus-appearance-minimum But then they did a further change in September last year which, the way it was written, did not logically make sense. And now, instead of removing the option A which was causing the logic problem, they have simply deleted the whole thing and left people with low vision no better off than they were in WCAG 2.1 - just an AAA version which will do absolutely nothing for the vast majority of websites! If designers want to use thin dotted outlines, they can, and never mind all the millions of people who struggle to see them!
Received on Wednesday, 24 May 2023 15:40:26 UTC