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

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Sep 3, 2023 7:41AM

On 03/09/2023 13:36, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> Good point, my primary argument still stands, the cart was put a dozen
> miles before the horse, I don't see any way to satisfy this criterion
> currently, meaning it's impossible to be WCAG level AA conformant.
> Needless to say I'd be happy to be wrong about this.

I've been critical of this SC even when it was being devised, for
exactly that reason...chicken and egg/speculative/wishful thinking SC
that has no real-world impact to be honest.

My take has been: do the best you can, choose whichever autocomplete
attribute feels most appropriate to you. Total absence of autocomplete
(or, theoretically, some other way of "programmatically identifying" the
purpose, like RDF tuples...not that they have any real-world support in
anything) is a failure, but unless wildly incorrect, use of an
autocomplete attribute that is arguably (with some subjective
interpretation, as would be the case specifically here for what the top
administrative level is or isn't) "right" passes.

P
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