Interactive elements distinguishable
Normative Text
Interactive elements are visually distinguishable without interaction from static content and include visual cues on how to use them.
Methods & best practices
- Method: Add visual indicators such as shading, border, drop down arrow, placement, etc. to interactive elements.
- Best Practice: Document interactive indicators and designs in style guide
Tests
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Key Terms
- accessibility support set
group of user agents and assistive technologies you test with
The AGWG is considering defining a default set of user agents and assistive technologies that they use when validating guidelines.
Accessibility support sets may vary based on language, region, or situation.
If you are not using the default accessibility set, the conformance report should indicate what set is being used.
- accessibility supported
available and working in the user agents and assistive technology in the accessibility support set
The working group intended to include a default accessibility support set. See Default accessibility support set #277.
- content
information, sensory experience and interactions conveyed
- interactive element
element that responds to user input and has a distinct programmatically determinable name
In contrast to non-interactive elements. For example, headings or paragraphs.
- non-interactive element
element that does not respond to user input and does not include sub-parts
If a paragraph included a link, the text either side of the link would be considered a static element, but not the paragraph as a whole.
Letters within text do not constitute a “smaller part”.
- programmatically determinable
meaning of the content and all its important attributes can be determined by software functionality that is accessibility supported