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Re: Angular and WCAG 4.1.1

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Jun 12, 2020 8:49AM

Zsolt -

The success criterion itself lists the types of HTML parsing errors
that would result in a failure. Custom attributes are not included in
this list, so this is not a WCAG failure. While such attributes are
unnecessary and always make me shake my head when I see them, they
have no direct impact on accessibility.

> Understanding SC 4.1.1. says: "the Success Criterion requires that the content can be parsed using only the rules of the formal grammar."

This is a significant overstatement. The Understanding document is not
a part of the normative guidelines, so this incorrect statement can be
ignored.

Thanks,

Jared