The content and meaning of each page is not altered when styles are disabled.

Styles allow you to give a shape to the background. Content must remain readable and understandable when this form cannot be seen or displayed.

Objectives

  • Enable the understanding of content by readers whose reader software will not apply the style sheets embedded in the digital book or whose access mode is not visual.
  • Improve the accessibility of content to people with disabilities.

Implementation

    Care will be taken to maintain the consistency of the content in the HTML files (i.e. the structuring tags: h1, h2, p, and semantic tags: em, strong…), to present them in the same order and with the same meaning with or without updating. in CSS form.

Control

  • Use ACE to check the logical structure of the content (Structures tab of the ACE report).
  • Check that the contents remain readable, for example in the case of a transparent HTML image whose readability will depend on the background color -ground applied with the background-color property

Validation

  • Needs to be human verified.

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metadata :

  • ONIX
  • OPF

About that rule

Rule origin : Opquast | Opquast reference 4 178 | Updated on July 22, 2024

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