developing Supplemental requirement

Orientation supported (enhanced)

Group: user-control • Guideline: adjustable-viewport

Summary in Plain English

Content works in both portrait and landscape. Content aligned with the physical world, and cases where a particular orientation is essential, are exempt.

Why It Matters

A device mounted to a wheelchair or a bed is fixed in one orientation. Content that only works the other way round cannot be used at all.

Scope: When This Applies

The draft's own conditions, quoted from guidelines/groups/user-control/adjustable-viewport/orientation-supported-enhanced.md.

Except when

Content is aligned with the physical world.
The orientation is essential.

W3C Raw Source Text

Verbatim from guidelines/groups/user-control/adjustable-viewport/orientation-supported-enhanced.md · informative document: informative/guidelines/user-control/adjustable-viewport/orientation-supported-enhanced.md

Content supports both portrait and landscape orientations.

:::except-when
* Content is aligned with the physical world.
* The orientation is essential.
:::

Orientation supported (enhanced)

Summary in Plain English

Why It Matters

Scope: When This Applies

Except when

Test Procedure from the W3C Draft

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W3C Threads on This Provision

WCAG 2.2 Criteria That Map Here

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