- From: Sailesh Panchang <sailesh.panchang@deque.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 12:23:54 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Proposed guideline: Title: Effective visual presentation: Guideline: Convey structure, information including changes in content and relationships between elements through visual presentation. Groups benefitted: Users who have difficulty in: - understanding content including cognitively / learning impaired users - in visually recognizing structure / relationships or changes or updates to content Synopsis of Intent: Making information, structure and relationships programmatically determinable helps individuals who use assistive technology that can interpret such content. Likewise, presentational characteristics of content including the positioning of elements should make intended data structure and relationships easily recognizable visually. This is not always the case. Updates to content values, alerts, error messages, changes in state too should be presented in a manner that make them clear and discernible or quite evident visually. Visible focus indication too will fall within the ambit of this guideline. While SC 1.3.1 of WCAG 2.1 requires info-relationships conveyed through presentation to be made programmatically determinable, there is no accessibility requirement that mandates what this guideline proposes. In a sense, this guideline is a corollary to SC 1.3.1. Examples: Headings, lists, row and column headings in tables etc. Alerts Error messages Updated count in a shopping cart Button state pressed or disabled after activating once pending processing, ... and many more Of course it will require more work, this is in idea stage. I am happy to take this forward as part of a sub-group if this is regarded as workable / explorable. Thanks, -- Join me at axe-con 2021: a free digital accessibility conference. Read more at https://www.deque.com/axe-con/ Feel free to contact Deque marketing if you have any questions. Thanks! Sailesh Panchang Principal Accessibility Consultant Deque Systems Inc 381 Elden Street, Suite 2000, Herndon, VA 20170 Mobile: 571-344-1765
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