Meaningful Sequence

Meaningful Sequence a primary element. It is mandatory to include in your digital product.

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Does the keyboard focus order match the visual layout? A person navigating with keyboard or a screen reader should be able to move around the page in a meaningful and predictable way. Without this order, it might confuse a person using a screen reader.

Summary Points:

  • Is the page sequence meaningful, does it make sense?

  • If disorganized, content will be confusing to someone with a screenreader

  • HTML is always an MS

  • Ordered lists are MS

  • Tables are MS

  • Unordered lists are not MS

Meaningful Sequence HTML Example:

Further On This Topic:

https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/content-structure-separation-sequence.html