- From: Adam Cooper <cooperad@bigpond.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 17:36:30 +1000
- To: "'Patrick H. Lauke'" <redux@splintered.co.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Let's hope that this shift in emphasis over the years from the letter of the normative documents in WCAG to the spirit of the informative documents doesn't bedevil any future versions of the specification ... -----Original Message----- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2026 5:03 PM To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: Tooltips and SC 4.1.3 On 02/06/2026 04:09, Adam Cooper wrote: > I guess it depends on whether a ‘hint’ qualifies as a status message. > > By the glossary definition of ‘status message’, it doesn’t appear so. I'd say that's an overly tight/lawyerly interpretation. The intention of the definition and the SC is fairly clear that it's about messages/"things" that count as messages to the user and that a sighted non-SR user will perceive but an SR user may miss out on. P -- Patrick H. Lauke * https://www.splintered.co.uk/ * https://github.com/patrickhlauke * https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ * https://mastodon.social/@patrick_h_lauke
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