Re: Using the word 'below' as a visual characteristic

Hi Louise,

While definitely not "gospel", I for one would find this acceptable, as in
your context "below" is effectively synonymous with "later in the
document", which is both accurate and true.

While I am not a daily screen reader, I nonetheless find this acceptable in
'spirit': the user-experience for daily screen reader users is essentially
linear/vertical - what I've heard, what I am hearing, and what I've yet to
hear. 3 dimensional references (i.e. "to the left", "to the right", "next
to") is where you start getting into confusion/issues.

My personal $0.02 FWIW.

JF

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 6:55 AM Louise Lister <Louise.Lister@iop.org> wrote:

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> Hello all,
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> I hope that you are all having good weather wherever you are!
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> I’ve just been reviewing our website for over reliance on visual
> characteristics (shape, size, colour, position) and noticed that we use the
> term ‘below’ a bit.
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> “Please see below a list of …”
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> “See guidance notes below”
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> Can someone tell me if the use of the word ‘below’ equals an over reliance
> on ‘position’, and would fail a WCAG check? I’m hoping this is okay as
> there’s may not be a succinct alternative.
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> Thank you for your help!
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> Kind regards
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> Louise
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