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Re: WCAG 2.1 SC 1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose - TestingMethodology

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Nov 1, 2018 10:47AM

John -

If I'm understanding the issue correctly, here's a scenario (though,
admittedly, a bit of an edge case)...

Someone is completing an online form to request a background check and the
form has several fields where the user is asked to enter all of their known
"given" or "first" names - any name by which they may be known. Giving all
of these fields an autocomplete attribute would lend itself to incorrect
entry. But NOT giving all of the fields autocomplete would be a WCAG
failure. So which is the proper approach?

Jared