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[[Category:Techniques]]

== Review Assignments ==

In the [http://www.w3.org/2013/12/03-wai-wcag-minutes.html 3 December 2013 WCAG meeting] the following people were assigned to review failure techniques. Please put your comments for the techniques under the section heading with your name in it.

=== David MacDonald ===

F1 to F20

*F1: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.2 due to changing the meaning of content by positioning information with CSS
OK
*F2: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 due to using changes in text presentation to convey information without using the appropriate markup or text.

Role of heading would pass?


*F3: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 due to using CSS to include images that convey important information

Alternate text via labelled by or aria-label could provide an alternative? this relates with F65 although marco says should be treated separately from f65 to which I agree… we could allow it and still not change f65, but it muddies the waters?

*F4: Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.2 due to using text-decoration:blink without a mechanism to stop it in less than five seconds
OK
*F7: Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.2 due to an object or applet, such as Java or Flash, that has blinking content without a mechanism to pause the content that blinks for more than five seconds
OK
*F8: Failure of Success Criterion 1.2.2 due to captions omitting some dialogue or important sound effects
OK
*F9: Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.5 due to changing the context when the user removes focus from a form element
OK
*F10: Failure of Success Criterion 2.1.2 and Conformance Requirement 5 due to combining multiple content formats in a way that traps users inside one format type
OK
*F12: Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.5 due to having a session time limit without a mechanism for saving user's input and re-establishing that information upon re-authentication
OK
*F13: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 and 1.4.1 due to having a text alternative that does not include information that is conveyed by color differences in the image
OK
*F14: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.3 due to identifying content only by its shape or location
OK
*F15: Failure of Success Criterion 4.1.2 due to implementing custom controls that do not use an accessibility API for the technology, or do so incompletely
ARIA TF covering
*F16: Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.2 due to including scrolling content where movement is not essential to the activity without also including a mechanism to pause and restart the content
OK
*F17: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 and 4.1.1 due to insufficient information in DOM to determine one-to-one relationships (e.g., between labels with same id) in HTML
OK
*F19: Failure of Conformance Requirement 1 due to not providing a method for the user to find the alternative conforming version of a non-conforming Web page
OK
*F20: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 and 4.1.2 due to not updating text alternatives when changes to non-text content occur
OK

=== Kerstin Probiesch ===

F21 to F40

F39: possible ARIA impact?


F20 OK

F21 NA

F22:

Not sure about Failure Example 2:

„A user clicks on a link, and a new window appears. The original link has no associated text saying that it will open a new window.“
SR-Users know when target=“blank“ is used. This failure example would mean, that the a text of a link must have an „(new window)“, or?
Aren’t users familiar with new windows (as long as the focus don’t move tot he window?

F23 Ok

F24: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.3, 1.4.6 and 1.4.8 due to specifying foreground colors without specifying background colors or vice versa

Probably this one needs some discussion. When a user override all font and color settings for websites (Appearance ->  Accessibility -> Ignore colors specified on webpages) than and under these conditions it’s not a problem and it works nicely. I’m not sure if this should be a failure, because a user needs just one click more for appearance in preferred  colors .

F25: Failure of Success Criterion 2.4.2 due to the title of a Web page not identifying the contents

Probably we could include „Website“ as sixth example after „New Page 1"

F26: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.3 due to using a graphical symbol alone to convey information

Think this one needs some attention.  Is it also a failure when an alternate text (alt) is given or not? When graphical symbols alone are used to convey information aren’t they ambigous to users in general?

F27, F28, F29 NA

F30 OK

F31 OK

F32 Ok

F33 OK

F34 OK

F35 NA

F36 OK

Don't think that ARIA impact is really needed.

F37: Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.2 due to launching a new window without prior warning when the status of a radio button, check box or select list is changed

IE6 is mentioned, but I think there is no need to revise this failure.

F38: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 due to omitting the alt-attribute for non-text content used for decorative purposes only in HTML

Think this one should be clear. Anyway, as example we just have 
„Failure Example 1: Decorative images that have no alt attribute“
Probably we should include one or two real world examples.

F39 OK

F40 OK


====David adds:====
I think we need to move H33 technique to advisory. The link text and title compete for the AccName and so the title text is not read...  In JAWS there is an option not on by default to crawl the DOM and select the title attribute, but both cannot be selected and it is a heuristic hack given that the accessibility API doesn’t get this... there are extensive user agent notes on the technique, about where it doesn’t work, and none of this has been fixed in the 5 years since we published the technique.

[http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20130905/H33 H33: Supplementing link text with the title attribute (HTML)]

=== Bruce Bailey ===

* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F41 F41]: Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.1, 2.2.4, and 3.2.5 due to using meta refresh with a time-out
** Okay
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F42 F42]: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 and 2.1.1 due to using scripting events to emulate links in a way that is not programmatically determinable
** Okay, but Example 2 code would be clearer if it showed IMG element and not just attributes! 
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F43 F43]:  Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 due to using structural markup in a way that does not represent relationships in the content
** Okay.  Four examples are included.  We might want to brainstorm to see if there are a few more we could add.
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F44 F44]:  Failure of Success Criterion 2.4.3 due to using tabindex to create a tab order that does not preserve meaning and operability
** Okay
* F45:  NA 
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F46 F46]: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 due to using th elements, caption elements, or non-empty summary attributes in layout tables
** Okay, but only one example when title includes three failures.
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F47 F47]:  Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.2 due to using the blink element
** Okay
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F48 F48]:  Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 due to using the pre element to markup tabular information
** Okay
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F49 F49]:  Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.2 due to using an HTML layout table that does not make sense when linearized 
** Okay
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F50 F50]:  Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.2 due to a script that causes a blink effect without a mechanism to stop the blinking at 5 seconds or less
** Okay.  Is value of 450 4.5 seconds? (No, .45 sec, the script alternates between the show and hide functions on the .45 s interval)
* F51:  NA 
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F52 F52]:  Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.1 and 3.2.5 due to opening a new window as soon as a new page is loaded
** Okay
* F53:  NA 
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F54 F54]:  Failure of Success Criterion 2.1.1 due to using only pointing-device-specific event handlers (including gesture) for a function
** Okay but even if keyboard event handler were added to example, wouldn't example still be fail?  (See F42)
** Perhaps we should add a note that indicates this concern?  An author could use ARIA's role attribute to make this a button or link (http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_a_WAI-ARIA_role_to_expose_the_role_of_a_user_interface_component)
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F55 F55]:  Failure of Success Criteria 2.1.1, 2.4.7, and 3.2.1 due to using script to remove focus when focus is received
** Okay but is this.blur() really the only way to cause the problem?
* F56:  NA 
* F57:  NA 
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F58 F58]: Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.1 due to using server-side techniques to automatically redirect pages after a time-out
** Okay, but cited tests are to Firefox 1.0 and IE 6
** may be able to generalize the statement at this point.
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F59 F59]:  Failure of Success Criterion 4.1.2 due to using script to make div or span a user interface control in HTML
** '''We should probably discuss.  These seem identical to F42 to me.'''
** Updated by ARIA TF and approved by group: http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/ARIA-edit:_F59:_Failure_of_Success_Criterion_4.1.2_due_to_using_script_to_make_div_or_span_a_user_interface_control_in_HTML
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/failures.html#F60 F60]:   Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.5 due to launching a new window when a user enters text into an input field
** Okay, but could benefit from code example rather than just description of behavior

=== Peter Thiessen ===

F61 to F80

F61: Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.5 due to complete change of main content through an automatic update that the user cannot disable from within the content
* Might be worth noting that the control to disable updates should also allow re-enabling

F62: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 and 4.1.1 due to insufficient information in DOM to determine specific relationships in XML
* Covers similar criteria to F17 and F77. Possibly add both to “Realted Techniques” or possibly consider potentially merging the related techniques together since they cover similar ground.
* ARIA TF covering?

F63: ARIA TF covering

F65: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 due to omitting the alt attribute on img elements, area elements, and input elements of type "image"
* A hot topic that is currently unresolved with division over whether or not to “loosen” the second test procedure to include aria attributes. (do we have a reference we can link to with compiled views on this?)
* ARIA TF covering

F66: OK

F67: OK

F68: ARIA TF covering

F69: OK

F70: OK

F71: OK

F72: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 due to using ASCII art without providing a text alternative
* I wonder if this is missing any similar media to ASCII art? (come back to)

F73: OK

F74: OK

F75: OK

F76: OK

F77: Failure of Success Criterion 4.1.1 due to duplicate values of type ID
* See F62 comment.

F78: OK

F79: OK

F80: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.4 when text-based form controls do not resize when visually rendered text is resized up to 200%
* Possibly useful to reference F69 under Related Techniques

Note from AWK: Peter, can you look at F62, F77, and F17 together?  They seem connected. (agreed AWK :)

=== Andrew Kirkpatrick ===

F81: ok

F82: ok

F83: ok

F84: ok

F85: on ARIA Tech TF list

F86: on ARIA Tech TF list

F87: on ARIA Tech TF list

F88: ok

F89: on ARIA Tech TF list

F90: ok

F91: Already includes an ARIA reference.  Clarifies the question of whether <td scope="col"> would suffice or not (it is sufficient). Need to clarify procedure #1 from "headers marked up with table header (th) elements, optionally with scope attributes" to "headers marked up with table header (th) elements, including scope attributes unless the table has headers only in the first row or column."

== Other Failure Techniques ==

* [[F69 Example]]
* [[Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 due to using elements within data tables that obscure structural relationships]]
* [[Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 due to not using headers and id attributes to associate data cells to multiple headings]]
* [[Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 for not correctly marking up table headers]]
* [[Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 for incorrectly associating table headers and content via the headers and id attributes]]
* F59 - needs to be updated to not exclude conforming when ARIA used; see [https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/July-19/results#x2617] for WG comments
* [[F38: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 due to omitting the alt-attribute for non-text content used for decorative purposes only in HTML]]
* [[F76: Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.2 due to not advising, or not providing a link to the advice prior to the control that causes a change in context or not providing advice that is programatically associated with the control.]]

Also see [[:Category:Failure Techniques]].