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Editor's Draft of W3C Note. "Mobile Accessibility: How WCAG 2.0 and UAAG 2.0 Apply to Mobile Devices" from the Mobile Accessibility Task Force of the WCAG WG and UAAG WG.
http://w3c.github.io/Mobile-A11y-TF-Note/
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Section 4.2, "Consistent" in WCAG 3.2.3 is limited to "Navigation" #11

Open DavidMacDonald opened 9 years ago

DavidMacDonald commented 9 years ago

Section 4.2 "Components that are repeated across multiple pages should be presented in a consistent layout....Consistency between the different screen sizes and screen orientations is not a requirement under WCAG 2.0."

This infers that consist component layout is required within screen sizes.

I don't think this is quite what WCAG was getting at with SC's 3.2.3, 3.2.4. 3.2.3 was really just about left **

navigation ** menus, rather than components, and 3.2.4 was about labeling and identification rather than placement. I'm not saying that authors shouldn't place other things consistently , but I think this could lead to confusion about Consistency as it is required in WCAG , which it isn't from my memory of those discussions and the current WCAG text.

3.2.3 Consistent Navigation: Navigational mechanisms that are repeated on multiple Web pages within a set of Web pages occur in the same relative order each time they are repeated, unless a change is initiated by the user.

3.2.4 Consistent Identification: Components that have the same functionality within a set of Web pages are identified consistently. (Level AA)

I think section 4.2 of the mobile requires some rewriting to correct this confusion.

KimPatch commented 9 years ago

Reordered the paragraph to make clearer