Preselections Visible

Test Procedure from the W3C Draft

Quoted from the provision's informative document, informative/guidelines/process-and-task-completion/avoid-deception/preselections-visible.md. It is the group's own procedure, not an editorial testing guide.

W3C Working Group Status

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W3C Threads on This Provision

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• #437 Remove “No hidden preselections”? open 0 comments · updated 2026-03-29
• #438 Define “preselected options” open 0 comments · updated 2026-03-29

WCAG 2.2 Criteria That Map Here

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W3C Raw Source Text

Verbatim from guidelines/groups/process-and-task-completion/avoid-deception/preselections-visible.md · informative document: informative/guidelines/process-and-task-completion/avoid-deception/preselections-visible.md

During the completion of a process, preselected options that impact finance, privacy or safety are visibly and programmatically available to the user by default.