Comment from Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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I am forwarding a comment from the FInnish organisation for persons with cognitive impairments, who also do research and provide the majority of news, pedagogical material etc for this target group in Finland.

//Susanna

Hi

I am working in Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. We are responsible for many quite popular websites in our field. The most used website had an average of 5 500 users per day (papunet.net, 2017). Many of our users them have cognitive impairments. Many users are working with people with cognitive impairments and they are using our materials together.

People with cognitive impairments are those who are currently having the biggest difficulties using web services. So it is very important for us and our visitors that 1.3.4 becomes part of WCAG's success criteria at Level AA. We do not see any problems with the implementation and are happy to contribute with experiences from our development environment.

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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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