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Priority 3 Checkpoints
WAI Guideline 1: Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content.
Images maps
1.5: Until user agents render text equivalents for client-side image map links, provide redundant text links for each active region of a client-side image map. [WAI ![[Open link in new browser window.]](../images/newwin.gif "Open external link in new browser window."){kind=small}
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Graphics
WAI Guideline 4: Clarify natural language usage.
Abbreviations / acronyms
4.2: Specify the expansion of each abbreviation or acronym in a document where it first occurs. [WAI ]
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Content
Standards
Document language
4.3: Identify the primary natural language of a document. [WAI ]
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Content
WAI Guideline 5: Create tables that transform gracefully.
Tables
5.5: Provide summaries for tables. [WAI ]
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Tables
5.6: Provide abbreviations for header labels. [WAI ]
WAI Guideline 9: Design for device-independence.
Tab order
9.4: Create a logical tab order through links, form controls, and objects. [WAI ]
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Keyboard access
Keyboard shortcuts
9.5: Provide keyboard shortcuts to important links (including those in client-side image maps), form controls, and groups of form controls. [WAI ]
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Keyboard access
WAI Guideline 10: Use interim solutions.
[Note: Guideline 10 might become obsolete in the future if user agents are designed to address these issues correctly.]
Links
10.5: Until user agents (including assistive technologies) render adjacent links distinctly, include non-link, printable characters (surrounded by spaces) between adjacent links. [WAI ]
Tables
10.3: Until user agents (including assistive technologies) render side-by-side text correctly, provide a linear text alternative (on the current page or some other) for all tables that lay out text in parallel, word-wrapped columns. [WAI ]
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Tables
Forms
10.4: Until user agents handle empty controls correctly, include default, place-holding characters in edit boxes and text areas. [WAI ]
WAI Guideline 11: Use W3C technologies and guidelines.
Alternative versions of content
11.3: Provide information so that users may receive documents according to their preferences (e.g., language, content type, etc.) [WAI ]
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Dynamic and multimedia content
WAI Guideline 13: Provide clear navigation mechanisms.
Navigation & comprehension
13.5: Provide navigation bars to highlight and give access to the navigation mechanism. [WAI ]
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Usability
13.6: Group related links, identify the group (for user agents), and, until user agents do so, provide a way to bypass the group. [WAI ]
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Usability
Skipping repetitive information
13.7: If search functions are provided, enable different types of searches for different skill levels and preferences. [WAI ]
13.8: Place distinguishing information at the beginning of headings, paragraphs, lists, etc. [WAI ]
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Content
13.9: Provide information about document collections (i.e., documents comprising multiple pages.). [WAI ]
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Metadata
13.10: Provide a means to skip over multi-line ASCII art. [WAI ]
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Skipping repetitive information
WAI Guideline 14: Ensure that documents are clear and simple.
Comprehension
14.2: Supplement text with graphic or auditory presentations where they will facilitate comprehension of the page. [WAI ]
Consistency
14.3: Create a style of presentation that is consistent across pages. [WAI ]
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Usability
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