4.1.1 editorial improvements suggested for the removal note

[mitchellevan]

Current text

https://github.com/w3c/wcag/blob/main/guidelines/sc/20/parsing.html

Parsing (Obsolete and removed)
NOTE
This criterion was originally adopted to address problems that Assistive Technology had directly parsing HTML. Assistive Technology no longer has any need to directly parse HTML and, consequently, these problems no longer exist. Accessibility errors failed by this criterion also fail other criteria. This criterion no longer has utility and is removed.

Editorial issues in the Note:

• "Assistive Technology" should be lowercase.
• "These problems no longer exist" sounds like a contradiction of "errors... fail other criteria."
• The sentence "Accessibility errors failed by this criterion..." has awkward grammar, mixing past tense "failed" (in a version of WCAG before removal of 4.1.1) with present tense "fail" (in the current version of WCAG).

Proposed edits

For clarity and orthography

Parsing (Obsolete and removed)
NOTE
This criterion was originally adopted to address problems that assistive technology had directly parsing HTML. Assistive technology no longer has any need to directly parse HTML. Consequently, these problems either no longer exist or are addressed by other criteria. This criterion no longer has utility and is removed.

[GreggVan]

Good edits. Same content/message but more clearly worded. gregg

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------------------------------ Gregg Vanderheiden ***@***.***

On Feb 3, 2023, at 8:22 PM, Mitchell Evan ***@***.***> wrote: Current text https://github.com/w3c/wcag/blob/main/guidelines/sc/20/parsing.html Parsing (Obsolete and removed) NOTE This criterion was originally adopted to address problems that Assistive Technology had directly parsing HTML. Assistive Technology no longer has any need to directly parse HTML and, consequently, these problems no longer exist. Accessibility errors failed by this criterion also fail other criteria. This criterion no longer has utility and is removed. Editorial issues in the Note: "Assistive Technology" should be lowercase. "These problems no longer exist" sounds like a contradiction of "errors... fail other criteria." The sentence "Accessibility errors failed by this criterion..." has awkward grammar, mixing past tense "failed" (in a version of WCAG before removal of 4.1.1) with present tense "fail" (in the current version of WCAG). Proposed edits For clarity and orthography Parsing (Obsolete and removed) NOTE This criterion was originally adopted to address problems that assistive technology had directly parsing HTML. Assistive technology no longer has any need to directly parse HTML. Consequently, these problems either no longer exist or are addressed by other criteria. This criterion no longer has utility and is removed. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#3000>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACNGDXXIIYW2ABWANCTVMQ3WVWVNLANCNFSM6AAAAAAUQ3P4TQ>. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.

[stes-acc]

"Assistive technology no longer has any need to directly parse HTML."

What is meant here is that AT goes by mappings to platform Accessibility APIs done by user agents (browsers) and not any more by direct HTML DOM parsing to extract role and property information. You should give a short note on that, too. Otherwise people may wonder by which magic this happens.