Re: Issue 208: Proposed wording for checkpoint 9.2

Jon Gunderson wrote:
> 
> How about:
> 
> Checkpoint 9.2 Allow the user to configure the user agent to prompt the
> user before the user agent submits a form, unless the submission was the
> direct result of an explicit user activation of a form submit control.
> 
> This sounds more like the wording used in other checkpoints: 2.2, many
> checkpoints in guideline 4...

My problem is that the word "user" appears five times in the sentence.
I don't find this expression of the requirement any clearer. I have
found this checkpoint requirement difficult to express in very very
short language.

 _ Ian
 
> Jon
> 
> Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
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Received on Thursday, 13 April 2000 10:07:33 UTC