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Re: Fwd:WCAG SC1.3.5 (Identify Input Purpose) and UK addresses

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Sep 2, 2023 11:45AM

Accidentally replied directly, rather than to the list...

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] WCAG SC1.3.5 (Identify Input Purpose) and UK addresses
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2023 18:44:31 +0100
From: Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >


On 02/09/2023 18:30, Steve Green wrote:
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> The whole thing is so ambiguous that different designers will have undoubtedly come to different decisions, undermining the usefulness of the success criterion. The whole problem stems from WCAG saying that address-level1 is the UK post town.

WCAG is copying verbatim what's in
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastructure.html#autofilling-form-controls:-the-autocomplete-attribute
... so in the first instance, this should be changed there.

> If that could be removed or changed to say it's the county,
everything would be resolved.

I'd suggest actually asking about changes that should be made to WCAG
... in the actual WCAG mailing list or even better the WCAG issue
tracker on github.

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