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Re: Do native HTML date pickers automatically fail SC 1.4.4 (Resize Text)?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: May 24, 2024 2:58AM

On 24/05/2024 03:39, Steve Green wrote:
> I am inclined to agree, but I am trying to understand why we think it's not non-conformant, because I feel we should always be able to point to the specific phrases in the success criteria that support our decision.
>
> One argument is that content authors should not be on the hook for the failings of UA controlled widgets, but the SC does not include such an exemption. Other SCs do, and there doesn't appear to be a general exemption that applies to all SCs, unless I'm missing something. The counter-argument is that content authors have the choice not to use these components, so they should be on the hook if they do.

A line has to be drawn about what is and isn't under the control of *web
content* authors. For things that are outside of their direct control
(things like the browser's own UI, its own widgets, things like the File
dialog, etc) we're not talking *web content* anymore, in my view. We
then fall back on (also fluffy and vague) concepts like "accessibility
supported" https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#dfn-accessibility-supported I'd
say - which can then be used to justify the more radical "they simply
shouldn't be using that particular approach/technology then" answer.

P
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