Comment from The National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools

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I am forwarding a comment on the SC 1.3.4 marked ”at risk” from the The National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools, SPSM, in Sweden. The message is written in Swedish and Google Translate offers a fairly good translation, but here is a more accurate one:

As a representative of the National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools, this is our response:
It is important for SPSM and our users that 1.3.4 becomes part of WCAG's success criteria at Level AA. We do not see any problems with the implementation and gladly contribute with experiences from our development environment.

Please help us make sure this is being communicated to the W3C.

Original:
Hej Susanna

Så här svarar jag som representant för SPSM:
”Det är viktigt för SPSM och våra besökare att 1.3.4 blir en del av WCAGs framgångskriterier på nivå AA. Vi ser inte några problem med implementationen och bidrar gärna med erfarenheter från vår utvecklingsmiljö.”

Ta gärna med det i ert svar till W3C.

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[Official WG Response]
Thank you for the comment. In the last round of updates the Working Group was able to reach consensus on the 1.3.4 SC for input controls only, whereas the previous version applied to all user interface components, including buttons and links. The Working Group received feedback expressing concerns that the previous language was relying on a schema that had not been rigorously developed, so the Working Group scaled the SC back to focus on the purposes that are in line with the HTML5 autofill detail token(https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/sec-forms.html#sec-autofill).

The ARIA Working group is continuing to work on Personalization Semantics (https://w3c.github.io/personalization-semantics/) and the AGWG anticipates that it will at some point be able to reference this work, but it is too early to do so in this specification.

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