Understanding Accessibility

Guideline 1 - Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content

There are 5 specific checkpoints in Guideline 1. Most of them are priority 1, so they are very important.

Guideline 1 checkpoints, ordered from 1 to 5, with priority and how to check the checkpoint given and the disabilities accommodated by applying the checkpoint
No. Checkpoint Priority Disability Accommodated
1.1 Provide a text equivalent for every non-text element Priority 1 Blind, Deaf
1.2 Provide redundant text links for each active region of a server-side image map Priority 1 Blind
1.3 Until user agents can automatically read aloud the text equivalent of a visual track, provide an auditory description of the important information of the visual track of a multimedia presentation Priority 1 Blind
1.4 For multimedia movies or animation, synchronize captions or auditory descriptions of the visual track with the presentation Priority 1 Blind
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 Priority 3 Blind

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