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Re: WCAG SC1.3.5 (Identify Input Purpose) and UK addresses

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 3, 2023 6:36AM


Good point, my primary argument still stands, the cart was put a dozen
miles before the horse, I don't see any way to satisfy this criterion
currently, meaning it's impossible to be WCAG level AA conformant.
Needless to say I'd be happy to be wrong about this.

On 9/3/23, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> According to the authors of this success criterion, the objective has
> nothing to do with auto-filling forms. It's to allow user agents to reliably
> understand the purpose of each field so they can use that to help people
> with cognitive impairments, such as by displaying icons next to them. I
> don't believe any user agents do that at the moment, but that's not relevant
> to WCAG conformance.
>
> Reverse engineering Google and other autofill features isn't going to work
> because my understanding is that they identify fields by the visible text
> label and they only recognise "autocomplete" values of "on" and "off". They
> don't use the values specified in WCAG.
>
> Steve
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