Conformance Level AA Guidelines

13 Guidelines

  • Captions (Live): Are you providing real time captions for all live media that includes audio? (Success Criterion 1.2.4 – Level AA)
  • Audio Description (Prerecorded): Are you providing a prerecorded audio description about what is happening visually in all prerecorded video content? (Success Criterion 1.2.5 – Level AA)
  • Contrast (Minimum): Is there sufficient contrast between the text or images of text and the background? (Success Criterion 1.4.3 – Level AA)
  • Resize Text: Can users resize text up to 200% without the use of assistive technology and not affect content and functionality? (Success Criterion 1.4.4 – Level AA)
  • Images of Text: Are you avoiding the use of images of text? (Success Criterion 1.4.5 – Level AA)
  • Multiple Ways: In your web content, is there more than one way for a user to locate a web page within the site? (Success Criterion 2.4.5 – Level AA)
  • Headings and Labels: If your web content contains Headings and/or Labels, are they clear and descriptive? (Success Criterion 2.4.6 – Level AA)
  • Focus Visible: In your web content, do all operable interfaces provide a visual focus indication when navigated to with the keyboard? (Success Criterion 2.4.7 – Level AA)
  • Language of Parts: If content on a page switches from one language to another language for a section, is that section’s language properly identified in the code? (Success Criterion 3.1.2 – Level AA)
  • Consistent Navigation: In your website/application, when navigational mechanisms are repeated from page to page, are they consistent in location and order across all similar pages? (Success Criterion 3.2.3 – Level AA)
  • Consistent Identification: Do you provide consistent labels and alternative text for like / repetitive components? (Success Criterion 3.2.4 – Level AA)
  • Error Suggestion: If an input error occurs in your website/application, do you provide input error correction suggestions to the user, if suggestions are known? (Success Criterion 3.3.3 – Level AA)
  • Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data): In your website/application, do you provide a way for a user to reverse a submission, correct input errors, or confirm data before final submission of legal, financial, or data (test response data)? (Success Criterion 3.3.4 – Level AA)