Input Method Flexible

Test Procedure from the W3C Draft

Quoted from the provision's informative document, informative/guidelines/input-operation/input-operation/input-method-flexible.md. It is the group's own procedure, not an editorial testing guide.

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• #76 Input control - needs clarification open 3 comments · updated 2026-10-26
• #820 Input method versus input modality open 3 comments · updated 2026-10-26

WCAG 2.2 Criteria That Map Here

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• 📘 2.5.6 Concurrent Input Mechanisms Level AAA →

W3C Raw Source Text

Verbatim from guidelines/groups/input-operation/input-operation/input-method-flexible.md · informative document: informative/guidelines/input-operation/input-operation/input-method-flexible.md

The ability to switch between input methods is available at any time.

:::note
This does not mean that all input technologies (pointer, keyboard, voice, gesture) need to be supported, but if an input modality is supported, it is supported everywhere in the content except where a particular input method is essential to the functionality.
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