No Time Limits

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Quoted from the provision's informative document, informative/guidelines/process-and-task-completion/adequate-time/no-time-limits.md. It is the group's own procedure, not an editorial testing guide.

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• #865 'No time limits' should be assertion instead of requirement open 0 comments · updated 2026-09-14

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• 📘 2.2.3 No Timing Level AAA →

W3C Raw Source Text

Verbatim from guidelines/groups/process-and-task-completion/adequate-time/no-time-limits.md · informative document: informative/guidelines/process-and-task-completion/adequate-time/no-time-limits.md

The completion of a process does not include time limits. 

:::except-when 
- the time limit is essential. 
:::

:::example
Essential time limits would include but are not limited to auctions, ticket sales, or timed exams.
:::

:::note
Implying to a user that they will lose a benefit if they don’t act immediately is not an essential time limit.
:::