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4.3 Success Criteria ?These prompts should occur before [what would be so prescient as to anticipate the author's intent?] I expect you mean the author's trying to initiate use of a feature that has accessibility consequence, such as insert image add alt="...", or create table -- add summary. Such examples might clarify your meaning. For some "at the time " seems more likely to be following what the author has done, at which time the accessibility consequences can be determined.