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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 30, 2019 8:26PM

Hi Birkir, the understanding document for 2.4.1 seems to only allow for blocks of repeated content that are small. It states "Small repeated sections such as individual words, phrases or single links are not considered blocks for the purposes of this provision."

In terms of installing a plug-in or extension -- in my experience this is not practical on mobile browsers most which don't support any extensions although a favlet could be run if the content security policy of the site didn't block it. But yes, your argument is one that I've also seen around focus -- why require developers to provide good visual focus when we can just have a focus extension. Why require developers to indicate languages when computers today can detect different languages. So it's a balance. Ultimately, most of us would like to see these features built into browsers on all devices -- but that doesn't seem to be happening.

Jonathan