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From: Mike Barlow
Date: Mar 25, 2016 8:15AM

I agree with Patrick. Though I'd never design a site that has an
"automatic" popup like the op describes. Sometimes one must bow to he who
signs the paycheck, but also sometimes he who signs the paycheck can be
persuaded that his approach could lead to more problems than it's worth.

For example, I've had many a customer tell me the "it's too costly (in
either time or money) to make my site accessible" to which I usually
respond (very politely of course), "Ok, so how expensive *is* a lawsuit
these days?" Citing cases where companies have had to pay out on
multi-million dollar lawsuits and STILL make their sites accessible.

*Mike Barlow*
Lead Application Developer
Web Accessibility/Section 508 SME

Lancaster, Pa 17601
Office: 732.784.3047
Cell: 732.682.8226
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> On 25/03/2016 11:18, Bruno Girard wrote:
>
>> Hello Rakesh,
>> This change do not happen on focus... It is slightly different. We open
>> the
>> window and give focus to this window. This window appears after a
>> programmed delay, without any specific user action. Does 3.2.1 is still
>> the
>> criteria to invoke for this fail?
>>
>
> It appears that WCAG 2.0 does not have a very specific SC for unexpected
> changes of context that happen without user action (be it input or focus)
> at AA. For AAA, I'd say this falls foul of 3.2.5 Change on Request
> https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/consistent-behavior-no-extreme-changes-context.html
>
> At a stretch, 2.2.1 Timing Adjustable
> https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/time-limits-required-behaviors.html
> (A) and 2.2.4 Interruptions
> https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/time-limits-postponed.html
> (again AAA)
>
> P
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