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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jun 17, 2025 11:55AM

> Is it acceptable to fail multiple criteria for the same accessibility
> issue, or should each issue be mapped to only one criterion?

Sure, why not.


> Would this also fail under:
>
> * **Sensory Characteristics** (since the change is only indicated visually
> via the checkmark)?

Sensory characteristics is scoped to *instructions* that refer to things
by their sensory characteristics. Having a checkmark in a button to
indicate it's selected doesn't fail. Having instructions elsewhere on
the page that say "Go and add a checkmark to the button" (or similar
things like "Press the round/green/semi-transparent button", "Hover over
the buttons and press the one that makes a bell sound when hovered",
etc) does fail that.

P
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