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Results of Questionnaire Understanding sections for WCAG 2.1

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This questionnaire was open from 2017-12-06 to 2017-12-31.

3 answers have been received.

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  1. Personlization 1
  2. Personlization 2
  3. timeouts
  4. interruptions
  5. accessible authentication

1. Personlization 1

Look at the understanding section for identify common purpose (was purpose of controls). Does it give the "what, why and how" for the success criteria.

What would you add?

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Responder Personlization 1
Lisa Seeman-Horwitz need to add tabe were we say for each item on the list what specification supports it.
add example pages?
John Rochford "understanding section ..." link is a #404
Mark Wilcock Error 404: Not Found - Therefore cannot comment on this resource.

2. Personlization 2

Look at the understanding section for identify contextual-information. Does it give the "what, why and how" for the success criteria.

What would you add?

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Responder Personlization 2
Lisa Seeman-Horwitz need more examples on how to meet it
add use case were symbols are the natrial language of the user
translations do not work
John Rochford Suggestion: Consider "enable" instead of "allow" because "allow" implies permission. Yes, what, why, and how are given. Nothing to add.
Mark Wilcock Yes, what, why and how are covered.
Additional examples could prove beneficial, possibly of a visual nature.

3. timeouts

Look at the understanding section for timouts (min). Does it give the "what, why and how" for the success criteria.

What would you add?

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Responder timeouts
Lisa Seeman-Horwitz need user example to stress that many people can not finish the task,often start things that they can not finish in the time, and therefor lose confidence in using the web.

idealy you keep the user data and make it so that the user can start and finish a task.this includeds the aging and disabilities. however in cases where you can not do that at least warn them before thet start to reduce the fusttration.
warnings mid-process are a fail. a warning should be given one time , before the user starts a process or task not at each step
John Rochford Yes, what, why, and how are given. Nothing to add.
Mark Wilcock Yes, what, why and how are covered.
Additional clarification when timeouts should be displayed to the user, preferably once at the beginning of that task/process.

4. interruptions

Look at the understanding section for interruptions. Does it give the "what, why and how" for the success criteria.

What would you add?

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Responder interruptions
Lisa Seeman-Horwitz
John Rochford Yes, what, why, and how are given. Nothing to add.
Mark Wilcock Yes, what, why and how are covered.
Error 404 for "COGA Techniques" link.
Techniques sections could be expanded.

5. accessible authentication

Look at the understanding section for accessible authentication. Does it give the "what, why and how" for the success criteria.

What would you add?

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Responder accessible authentication
Lisa Seeman-Horwitz we can make this better by including the answers and information on the wcag list discusions.

this includeds:
stressing that a useable alternitive is suffient
the user is alowed to pay for extra equiment such as a dongle
diffrent aprouches that may become allowed
conformence to the web-authification is a prefered technque
John Rochford There are significant grammatical problems that make the understanding doc difficult to understand. I will fix them. The SC needs a revision.
Mark Wilcock Yes, what, why and how are covered.
The wording is slightly confusing, compared to that of the other understanding sections.

More details on responses

  • Lisa Seeman-Horwitz: last responded on 7, December 2017 at 14:21 (UTC)
  • John Rochford: last responded on 10, December 2017 at 20:49 (UTC)
  • Mark Wilcock: last responded on 11, December 2017 at 22:50 (UTC)

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  3. Katie Haritos-Shea
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