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Blocks of content available (minimum)

Core requirement

Meaningful blocks of content are programmatically determinable and visually presented with sufficient surrounding space.

Tests

HTML sufficient space

Procedure

  1. Identify meaningful blocks of content in the page/view that are not bounded by a visual border.
  2. Examine the computed style to determine the total of margin, padding and border spacing.
  3. Check that the spacing between all adjacent meaningful blocks of content is sufficient.

Expected results

Programmatically identifiable meaningful blocks of content

Procedure

For each meaningful blocks of content in the page/view:

  1. Check that an appropriate role is being used for the meaningful blocks of content in the source code.
  2. Check using assistive technology that an appropriate role is being used for the meaningful blocks of content.

Expected results

Key Terms

accessibility support set

group of user agents and assistive technologies you test with

The AGWG is considering defining a default set of user agents and assistive technologies that they use when validating guidelines.

Accessibility support sets may vary based on language, region, or situation.

If you are not using the default accessibility set, the conformance report should indicate what set is being used.

accessibility supported

available and working in the user agents and assistive technology in the accessibility support set

The working group intended to include a default accessibility support set. See Default accessibility support set #277.

content

information, sensory experience and interactions conveyed

meaningful blocks of content

Group of related content that represents a distinct topic or function, intended to be perceived as a single unit and capable of being programmatically identified and labeled.

These blocks are required to be programmatically determinable so that assistive technologies can identify the boundaries and purpose of the information.

programmatically determinable

meaning of the content and all its important attributes can be determined by software functionality that is accessibility supported