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Re: SC 1.3.3 Question

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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Dec 1, 2017 5:25AM

Maybe another way to state this criterion to make it easier to understand would be something like this:

When writing instructions to help your users more effectively use your web site or application, ensure those instructions do not solely rely on sensory characteristics of content. Characteristics of content, like shape, colour, spatial relationships, sounds, etc, are only available via a single sense (like vision or hearing.) You can and should use these characteristics in your instructions to help your users. However, you should also include information that will help the user that doesn't rely on them being able to see, hear, or otherwise depend on a single sense to use the instructions.

For example, use "click the green Save button" instead of "click the green button".

I don't think of this criterion as being "Don't do this" but more "If you do this, you need to do this other thing as well."