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From: Steve Green
Date: Sep 14, 2020 7:51PM

Thanks Jonathan. I understand why tools report it, but it sounds like a user agent issue. If I am correct, tools should flag it as a "best practice", not a WCAG violation.

You refer to the need for a focusable element to have a label, but I do not believe that is a WCAG requirement either. The definition of a "user interface component" means that SC 4.1.2 will almost never apply to an <iframe> element.

My argument isn't so much with tool vendors, it's with testers who copy and paste the results from the tool into the report they give the client without giving any consideration to whether the results are correct. We are currently defending a client against a claim from a third party who has done precisely that. In contractual terms, the only thing that matters is strict WCAG conformance - the user experience is irrelevant.

Steve