18. Meaningful Content and Sequence (Docs)

18. Meaningful Content and Sequence

WCAG SC 1.3.1 Info and Relationships – Information, structure, and relationships conveyed through presentation can be programmatically determined or are available in text.
WCAG SC 1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence – When the sequence in which content is presented affects its meaning, a correct reading sequence can be programmatically determined.

Meaningful content must be available to all users. The sequence of the content (in context) must be logical and preserve content meaning.

Meaningful content provides information or context and includes content in headers, footers, watermarks, master page items, artifacts, and in floating elements.
Inline styling is included in this test.
Invisible content (text and background are the same color) is used for accessibility purposes and is not covered in Test 18.A. It is covered in 18.B.
Programmatically identified content is exposed to assistive technology. Document content that is not exposed to assistive technology can vary depending on document type.

Baseline Test ID: 18.A-MeaningfulContent

Meaningful visible content

Do not include meaningful background images, which are covered under Baseline 6. Images.

Check that all meaningful content is available in the body of the document or programmatically identified. [SC 1.3.1]

If any of the above checks fail, then Baseline Test 18.A-MeaningfulContent fails.

Baseline Test ID: 18.B-MeaningfulSequence

Identify all meaningful content including invisible meaningful content

Check that the reading order of all meaningful content (in context) is logical. [SC 1.3.2]

If the above checks fail, then Baseline Test 18.B-MeaningfulSequence fails.

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The following sufficient techniques and/or common failures were considered when developing this test procedure for this baseline requirement: