Principle 3: Understandable Flashcards
Information and the operation of the user interface must be understandable.
Make text content readable and understandable.
Guideline 3.1 Readable
The default human language of each Web page can be programmatically determined.
3.1.1 Language of Page
What level is 3.1.1 Language of Page?
A
The human language of each passage or phrase in the content can be programmatically determined except for proper names, technical terms, words of indeterminate language, and words or phrases that have become part of the vernacular of the immediately surrounding text.
3.1.2 Language of Parts
What level is 3.1.2 Language of Parts?
AA
A mechanism is available for identifying specific definitions of words or phrases used in an unusual or restricted way, including idioms and jargon.
3.1.3 Unusual Words
What level is 3.1.3 Unusual Words?
AAA
A mechanism for identifying the expanded form or meaning of abbreviations is available.
3.1.4 Abbreviations
What level is 3.1.4 Abbreviations?
AAA
When text requires reading ability more advanced than the lower secondary education level after removal of proper names and titles, supplemental content, or a version that does not require reading ability more advanced than the lower secondary education level, is available.
3.1.5 Reading Level
What level is 3.1.5 Reading Level?
AAA
A mechanism is available for identifying specific pronunciation of words where meaning of the words, in context, is ambiguous without knowing the pronunciation.
3.1.6 Pronunciation
What level is 3.1.6 Pronunciation?
AAA
Make Web pages appear and operate in predictable ways.
Guideline 3.2 Predictable
When any user interface component receives focus, it does not initiate a change of context.
3.2.1 On Focus