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Re: WCAG 2.1 - 1.3.5 - How to capture a violation?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jul 25, 2018 7:29AM

Jared, in my message I did not say that the SC required autocomplete -- but that autocomplete was the only technique that I was aware of that was supported to communicate the purpose. Other techniques such as microdata could be used if accessibility supported. The accessible name is generally not seen to fall into that category because of localization and other issues make prevent it from clearly aligning without ambiguity. You'll notice that the list of purposes from Section 7 of WCAG 2.1 comes from HTML's autocomplete list. So while autocomplete is not required by the SC I am not aware of another method to use that will work given the limited browser support for microdata formats. ARIA in the future could provide this information but I am not aware today that it contains what is needed.

Jonathan