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This document describes how different WCAG checkpoints help Mobile Web users and how compliance with these checkpoints can help comply with the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 (MWBP). For content that already complies with WCAG at different levels, it outlines what may need to be done to comply with all of the MWBP (“Extending from WCAG 1.0 to MWBP 1.0”).
This section provides guidance on the “upgrade path” from WCAG 1.0 compliance to MWBP 1.0. What follows is a summary of the detailed information for each success criterion that follows it. For each of the WCAG 1.0 priorities (1, 2 and 3) already achieved, the BPs are classified in three broad categories representing the effort required, labelled for simplicity with keywords (nothing, something, everything):
To summarise, if your content already complies with WCAG 1.0, to achieve compliance with MWBP 1.0, you need to do the following:
Nothing: content already complies with these BPs:
Something: more effort of some kind or a check, to comply with these BPs:
Everything: start from scratch to comply with these BPs:
Nothing: content already complies with these BPs:
Something: more effort of some kind or a check, to comply with these BPs:
Everything: start from scratch to comply with these BPs:
Nothing: content already complies with these BPs:
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Everything: start from scratch to comply with these BPs:
Refer to How does it especially help mobile users? in WCAG 2.0 document [@@ copy here before publication].
Refer to Does it give me MWBP 1.0 compliance? in WCAG 2.0 document [@@ copy here and adapt before publication]
The list below is of checkpoints described in detail in this section. Following it is a list of checkpoints believed to have no added accessibility benefit and no relation to any MWBP.
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How does it especially help mobile users? Refer to the section on WCAG 2.0 success criterion 1.1.1 “Non-text Content”.
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How does it especially help mobile users? If the mobile device has images turned off or does not support server-side image maps, redundant text links may help the user.
Does it give me MWBP 1.0 compliance?: No.
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How does it especially help mobile users? Refer to the section on WCAG 2.0 success criterion 1.2.2 Audio Description or Full Text Alternative.
Does it give me MWBP 1.0 compliance?: No.
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How does it especially help mobile users? Refer to the section on WCAG 2.0 success criterion 1.2.1 Captions (Prerecorded). See @@ for audio description.
Does it give me MWBP 1.0 compliance?: No
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How does it especially help mobile users? Even on devices that support them, images used as maps may not be easily visible on a small screen. Most mobile devices lack a pointing device like a mouse or rolling ball, making it difficult for users to use server-side image maps
. If image maps are used, providing redundant text links may improve the experience for mobile users.
Does it give me MWBP 1.0 compliance?: No.
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How does it especially help mobile users? Refer to WCAG 2.0 success criterion Refer to the section on WCAG 2.0 success criterion1.4.1 Use of Color.
Does it give me MWBP 1.0 compliance?: Yes, this checkpoint ensures compliance with USE_OF_COLOR without any further effort. It also helps to achieve compliance with BP STRUCTURE by ensuring that structural elements are used rather than colour.
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How does it especially help mobile users? Refer to the section on WCAG 2.0 success criterion 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum).
Does it give me MWBP 1.0 compliance?: This checkpoint ensures compliance with [COLOR_CONTRAST] with no further effort.
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Comment: Also cover [NON-TEXT_ALTERNATIVES] here.
How does it especially help mobile users? Providing equivalents for objects and scripts and ensuring the equivalents are updated helps users who can not perceive this conent due to device limitations as described in BP [OBJECTS_OR_SCRIPT].
Does it give me MWBP 1.0 compliance?: No. Although BP [OBJECTS_OR_SCRIPT] is partly concerned with equivalents, providing an equivalent is not sufficient to ensure compliance (the BP requires that objects and script not even be delivered to devices that do not support them and should be avoided where possible). However, objects and scripts are types of dynamic content and providing equivalents for them and ensuring the equivalents are updated goes some way to enabling (is a precondition for) compliance with the BP.
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How does it especially help mobile users? @@. Refer to Content blinks, moves, scrolls or auto-updates in “Summary of Experience of Content Features by Users” section.
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How does it especially help mobile users? @@. Refer to Content blinks, moves, scrolls or auto-updates in “Summary of Experience of Content Features by Users” section.
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How does it especially help mobile users? Refer to “Focus (tab) order does not match logical document content sequence” in Summary of Experience of Content Features by Users section. @@
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How does it especially help mobile users? Refer to “Link text not descriptive” in Summary of Experience of Content Features by Users section. @@
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How does it especially help mobile users? Refer to the section on WCAG 2.0 success criterion 2.4.2 Page Titled.
Does it give me MWBP 1.0 compliance?: Including the page title ensures compliance with [PAGE_TITLE] “Provide a short but descriptive page title” with no further effort.
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Comment: Perhaps some clarification needed here of this often baffling checkpoint.