100 Days of A11y

Day 2: WCAG Perceivable, Part 1

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Day 2... a weekend day, which can make it harder to make time to set aside for studying. I did it, though, spending roughly an hour and a half working through documentation, mulling over only part of the first WCAG principle, and working toward visualizing the different guidelines, success criterion, and techniques. I didn't get as far as I would've liked either, yet this is the deepest work I've ever done at combing through the WCAG docs.

Things I accomplished

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What I learned today

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In the process of trying to memorize guidelines and success criterion, I reinforced the image of the layers that exist within WCAG:

Additionally, looking closer at each criterion helped me to identify the additions made to WCAG 2.0's first principle:

When reading through the description about text alternatives, I ran across a concept new to me: "simpler language" is considered a text alternative under Guideline 1.1. Also, there are some identified exceptions to the text alternative guideline. Those exceptions apply to: