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Re: Does 1.3.5 apply if the form you're filling out is not about *you*?

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From: John Foliot
Date: Jul 12, 2019 6:37AM

+1 to Patrick.

JF

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 2:54 AM Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Lastly, the more general point of "wouldn't it be helpful if all form
> fields of a particular type were identified" probably falls more under
> 1.3.6 Identify Purpose in general, though note that while for 1.3.5 the
> commonly understood technique at this point in time is to use the
> autocomplete values defined in HTML, for 1.3.6 there is no universally
> agreed-upon (and supported by all user agents/third party apps/etc)
> standard way of achieving this.
>
> P
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