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Normal Horoscope:

Aries: You have an excellent pile of salted meat, share it with your friends.

Taurus: Pay attention and be gentile, you will be rewarded.

Gemini: Turns out you can make so many bad decisions you come out the other end well adjusted. 

Cancer: Eventually this will become a cool backstory, like batman.

Leo: If you have enough points, all Leos can unlock their lion form today.

Virgo: You will turn heads at your high school reunion by showing up in a dress made of human arms.

Libra: Discover your ability to telepathically control 80′s new wave artists.

Scorpio: Store your tiny notebook inside of a larger notebook.

Sagittarius: Your hair is wreathed in flowers made of twilight.

Capricorn: Recede into yourself, like a turtle but with your soul.

Aquarius: Plants associated with alchemichal purity grow between your ribs.

Pisces: The angel made a fresh kill and left its corpse by your shoes. It is a gift.

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What is new in WCAG 2.2

Notes from Deque Webinar 9/7

This will take years for rules and regulations to catch up. 2.2 in final comment period. 2.2 is focused on improving the experience of people with mobility and cognitive disabilities.

Overview:

Added 9 new Success Criteria.

Remove 1 Success Criteria: Parsing

Mobility improvements:

2.4.11 & 2.4.12 Focus not being obscured.

When navigating by keyboard focused element must not be covered by content. Helps people using keyboard navigation. Example a model where someone can tab to items behind it.

AA the item must be partially visible.

AAA the item must be totally visible.

2.5.7 Dragging Movement - AA

Drag and drop cannot be the only way to do something. Provide a simple pointer alternative. Keyboard alt does not meet this. Much have a touch screen/pointer alternative.

2.5.8 Target Size Minimum - AA

Touch area 24x24 CSS px. Minimum Size or control spacing. This applies to desktop and mobile. Draw circles 24 px in diameter and make sure they don't intersect.

You can provide an alternative. That is fine.

Inline exception. Links in text is fine. It's constrained by line height

User agent control. You often can't control browser controlled user elements like drop downs. If you build yourself it applies but if you use browser default it doesn't.

Essential: Maps may have overlapping, legal forms that need to look the same as the paper form.

2.4.13 Focus Appearance - AAA

Focus indicator has sufficient size and contrast from unfocused state.

2 CSS px thick parameter.

Contrast of 3:1 between same pixels in the unfocused state.

Cognitive Improvements

3.2.6 Consistent Help - A

Phone, email, FAQ link, contact info

Always in the same place. Example contact links on the footer.

3.3.7 Redundant Entry - A

Don't require people to enter info more than one. Make it easy for people to enter the info multiple times. They shouldn't have to enter same info more than once in the same session. For example shipping and billing where you can check a box to use shipping address for billing.

Alternate ways to populate info with the same data.

3.3.8 and 3.3.9 Accessible Authentication - AA and AAA

Authentication rules. Must have a way to authenticate that doesn't rely on transcribing codes, recalling something or solving puzzles.

No cognitive function test.

Double AA allows for captcha that requires recognizing items and clicking. AAA does not.

Do not block the ability of password managers and browsers to fill in password. Don't block copy/paste of passwords and username.

Applies to all possible steps including MFA, change password, recover account.

4.1.1 Parsing - A (REMOVED)

Most Parsing issues don't impact accessibility issues. They are hard to fix. Browsers can normally fix.

Issues with duplicate IDs in forms will be covered by the success criteria on accessible labels and names.