Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) Exam Guide Questions and CORRECT Answers

Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) Exam Guide Questions and CORRECT Answers WCAG stands for - Correct ANSWER - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG is for what devices - Correct ANSWER - Device agnostic, laptop, desktop, Tablet, mobile phone Who develops WCAG - Correct ANSWER - W3C WCAG four principles of web accessibility - Correct ANSWER - POUR Perceivable Operable Understandable Robust Percievable - Correct ANSWER - Information and the user interface must be presentable to users in ways persons with disabilities can perceive (including blindness, low vision, deafness, and hearing loss, limited movement, and cognitive limitations) operable - Correct ANSWER - User interface components and navigation must be operable (functional from a keyboard) understandable - Correct ANSWER - Information and operation of user interface must be understandable robust - Correct ANSWER - Content must be robust enough to be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents including assistive technology What was added in WCAG 2.1 compared to 2.0 - Correct ANSWER - Input modalities is the 13 guideline Sufficient techniques - Correct ANSWER - If the web content meets sufficient techniques, it successfully meets the success criterion Failure techniques - Correct ANSWER - If the web content fails any of these, it does not meet the success criterion Advisory techniques - Correct ANSWER - Optional or conditional techniques may represent accessibility best practices or possible ways of meeting the success criterion What year was WCAG 2.0 created - Correct ANSWER - 2008 What year was WCAG 2.1 created - Correct ANSWER - 2018 What does WAI -ARIA stand for - Correct ANSWER - Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Accessible Rich Internet Applications Why was WAI - ARIA created - Correct ANSWER - Created to increase the accessibility of content - dynamic content in particular - for assistive technology users, such as screen reader users - ________ defines attributes that can be added to standard HTML to d efine name role and values of elements ATAG stand for? - Correct ANSWER - Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines What does ATAG require - Correct ANSWER - Requires authoring tools (HTML/ web editors, content management systems, social media sites, blog commenting features, discussion forums, user rating features - etc) 1. Have accessible user interface 2. Support production of accessible content Normative documents define - - Correct ANSWER - Define accessibility practices required for conformance (to a specification) Non-normative documents provided - Correct ANSWER - Provide guidance and techniques for interpreting and conforming with the normative requirements, but non -normative techniques are not required for conformance WCAG 2.1 was initiated with to goal to improve accessibility guidance for three major groups - Correct ANSWER - 1. Users with cognitive or learning disabilities 2.users with low vision 3. Users with disabilities on mobile devices 1. Perceivable 4 main categories - Correct ANSWER - 1.1 Text Alternatives 1.2 Time -based media 1.3 Adaptable 1.4 Distnguishable 2. Operable 5 categories - Correct ANSWER - 2.1 Keyboard Accessible 2.2 Enough time 2.3 seizure and physical reactions 2.4 Navigable 2.5 Input modalities 3. Understandable 3 categories - Correct ANSWER - 3.1 Readable 3.2 Predictable 3.3 Input assistance 4. robust one category - Correct ANSWER - 4.1 compatible