§13.1 · CAPABILITY · 3 MIN READ · EDITION 1.0
Accessibility as a design commitment
A reviewer interface, a training exercise or a published section that is not usable with a screen reader, keyboard-only navigation, or under reduced motion has excluded part of its intended audience from the control it claims to support.
Accessibility is a control-quality issue here, not only a compliance checkbox: a reviewer who cannot operate the acceptance interface cannot perform the human decision the guideline depends on.
Every interactive surface should have a keyboard-operable path and an accessible equivalent to any canvas or visual-only view, verified directly rather than assumed from the framework used to build it.
PUT THIS INTO PRACTICE
- 01Verify keyboard-only operation on every interactive surface.
- 02Provide an accessible equivalent to canvas or visual-only views.
- 03Test under reduced-motion settings, not just default settings.
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§13.1 · Edition 1.0 · Accessibility as a design commitment