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From: Steve Green
Date: May 24, 2023 12:48PM

I understand the difficulty in writing a testable success criterion. My view is that if a level AA version of Focus Appearance cannot be agreed very soon, then WCAG 2.2 should move to full Recommendation as long as there is a commitment to work on WCAG 2.3. The other success criteria are too important to delay any further, but we cannot wait 3 or 4 years for whatever Focus Appearance looks like in WCAG 3.0.

I wonder if there might be a solution along the lines of the Harding Test for flashing content in videos. There is an algorithm for calculating if flashing exceeds the permitted level, but it is too complicated to calculate manually. A number of organisations have therefore implemented online services that do the test automatically.

Steve