developing Core requirement

Order Detectable

Group: layout • Guideline: structure

Summary in Plain English

Where content is ordered, programmatically determinable markers indicate each item's position - unless the nature of the ordering is stated immediately before it.

Why It Matters

Without position markers a screen reader user hears a list of items with no sense of sequence, which matters when the order is the information.

Scope: When This Applies

The draft's own conditions, quoted from guidelines/groups/layout/structure/order-detectable.md.

Except when

The nature of the ordering of the content is presented immediately prior.

Notes in the draft

This includes lists and processes.

Test Procedure from the W3C Draft

Quoted from the provision's informative document, informative/guidelines/layout/structure/order-detectable.md. It is the group's own procedure, not an editorial testing guide.

Process steps

Procedure

For each ordered process:

Check that each step in the process includes an indicator of its position within the process.

Expected results

#1 is true.

HTML ordered lists

Procedure

For each ordered list:

Examine the HTML code and check that each ordered list is marked up with an <ol> element.

Expected results

#1 is true.

W3C Raw Source Text

Verbatim from guidelines/groups/layout/structure/order-detectable.md · informative document: informative/guidelines/layout/structure/order-detectable.md

Ordered content includes programmatically determinable markers that indicate the position of each item.

:::except-when
* The nature of the ordering of the content is presented immediately prior.
:::

:::note
This includes lists and processes.
:::