- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 12:20:12 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
On 30/03/2021 15:27, Alastair Campbell wrote: > Call For Consensus — ends 1^st April at noon Boston time. > > The Working Group has discussed the WCAG 2.2 success criteria > “Consistent Help” (was “Findable Help”), the latest version can be seen > here: > > https://w3c.github.io/wcag/guidelines/22/#consistent-help > <https://w3c.github.io/wcag/guidelines/22/#consistent-help> A late "I can live with this", but noting that now the understanding document seems slightly out of sync with the SC. "Without help, some users may abandon the task. They may also fail to correctly complete a task, or they may require assistance from people who do not necessarily keep private information secure." This seems to focus on the fact that help in general should be available, but that's not the requirement itself, as noted a few paragraphs later "While it would be best for all sites to offer at least one of these types of help, this SC does not require help be provided. The SC requires that when help is available that it be in a consistent location." The understanding document also goes on to explain how the various help options should be implemented/what they should or shouldn't say/contain. But that now seems orthogonal to the SC text itself, which focuses on providing a consistent location, and not how/what those help things should actually entail? Also wondering if the whole SC can now not simply be boiled down to "For each web page within a set of web pages that provides a help functionality, this functionality is included in the same relative order on each page." without needing to list the help functionalities directly in the SC text? And then define/list examples of help functionality separately/as a definition? Unless this SC tries to do more than one thing (kind of pressuring authors into providing at least one of these, though it claims not to, while on the face just saying that IF that kind of help is provided, it should be reachable in a consistent manner). P -- Patrick H. Lauke https://www.splintered.co.uk/ | https://github.com/patrickhlauke https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | https://www.deviantart.com/redux twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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