Techniques for WCAG 2.0

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F54: Failure of Success Criterion 2.1.1 due to using only pointing-device-specific event handlers (including gesture) for a function

Important Information about Techniques

See Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria for important information about the usage of these informative techniques and how they relate to the normative WCAG 2.0 success criteria. The Applicability section explains the scope of the technique, and the presence of techniques for a specific technology does not imply that the technology can be used in all situations to create content that meets WCAG 2.0.

Applicability

Technologies that have event handlers specific to pointing devices.

User Agent and Assistive Technology Support Notes

This failure relates to:

Description

When pointing device-specific event handlers are the only mechanism available to invoke a function of the content, users with no vision (who cannot use devices such as mice that require eye-hand coordination) as well as users who must use alternate keyboards or input devices that act as keyboard emulators will be unable to access the function of the content.

Examples

Failure Example 1

The following example is of an image that responds to a mouse click to go to another page. This is a failure because the keyboard cannot be used to move to the next page. <p><img onmousedown="nextPage();" src="nextarrow.gif" alt="Go to next page"></p>

Resources

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Tests

Procedure

  1. Check to see whether pointing-device-specific event handlers are the only means to invoke scripting functions.

Expected Results