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Requirements

More than color, location, shape, and/or size alone are used to convey information or importance.
[WCAG 1.4.1, WCAG 1.3.3]

Benefits

The practice of not relying on shape, size, location, and color alone to convey importance or emphasis comes from the fact that not everyone sees color in the same way, and, despite this, your audience still needs to be able to discern which text is important or conveys specific information.

Below are just a few conditions that this practice helps your audiences overcome:

Blindness
Reading Disabilities
Color Blindness
Printing in Grayscale
Using Inverted And Other High Contrast Color Filters
Viewing Through Malfunctioning Device Display

Reading of Incorrectly Formatted List
Audio Samples	Transcript
JAWS v.17.0.2729
NVDA v.2017.4
VoiceOver v.ios 11.2.5
MS Office: Speak	One of the following, Cranberry Juice, Apple Juice, Grape Juice, Sprite.

Reading of Correctly Formatted List
Audio Samples	Transcript
JAWS v.17.0.2729
NVDA v.2017.4
VoiceOver v.ios 11.2.5
MS Office: Speak	One of the following, Cranberry Juice, Apple Juice, Grape Juice, Sprite.

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Last Updated Summer 2018

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