Web Accessibility Principles Flashcards
What does WCAG stand for?
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
What are the 4 WCAG principles?
Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust
What does POUR stand for?
Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust
What is the Universal Format?
Digital Text.
Why is digital text known as the Universal Format?
Because it is accessible to individuals who are blind, deaf, and deaf and blind.
What HTML attribute can be used for providing a text description on images that cannot be seen by sighted users, but will be read by screen readers?
The alt attribute. Short for alternative text.
What does ARIA stand for?
Accessible Rich Internet Applications
What purpose does an ARIA live region serve?
For screen readers to announce when new content has been added to the DOM.
What is the most universal method of accomplishing the broadest perceivability?
Digital text.
What is meant by In, Within, Through, and Out
Relating to the operability of web content. You must be able to navigate into web components, use the features within them, navigate through them, and navigate out of all of them, no matter what input device you’re using.
What HTML attribute can be used to programmatically set the language of a page or element?
The lang attribute. Short for language.
What ARIA attribute tells assistive technologies like screen readers that an element is expanded or collapsed?
aria-expanded=”true” and “aria-expanded=”false”
Ensuring that interaction with web content does not depend on using specific input devices is an application of which principle?
Operable
Ensuring that navigation features like a menu are consistent across the entire website is an example of which web accessibility principle?
Understandable
Providing captions for a video is an example of which principle?
Perceivable
