{ "test_case_id": "A11Y-MZOM-002", "title": "Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input", "category": "screen_magnification", "procedure_version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "rule_type": "journey", "wcag_criteria": [ "1.4.4", "1.4.10", "2.1.1" ], "level": "AA", "risk": "high", "risk_basis": "Checks critical journey, reading and input with the real Apple Zoom with Safari magnifier at 200% and 400%. People most likely affected: people with low vision who use operating-system or specialist screen magnification. Focus, text cursors, remote changes or task context may move outside the magnified viewport. In the recorded macos-zoom-safari environment, track the visual viewport, pointer, focus, notifications and reading position at the stated magnification; unexpected viewport movement or distant feedback can make the next action impossible to locate.", "review_status": "draft", "reviewed_at": "", "review_note": "Template content is subject to a hash-bound internal consistency review. Formal assessment claims require competent execution, current evidence and the applicable legal, participant and organisational authority.", "method_label": "Screen-magnifier journey", "tester_level": "Experienced magnifier tester", "estimated_duration": "Typically 69–100 minutes for the stated single-target assumptions; use the component breakdown when estimating a real sample.", "execution_class": "real_device_manual", "automation_support": "supporting_evidence_only", "simulation_policy": "simulation_prohibited_for_coverage", "plain_summary": "Checks critical journey, reading and input with the real Apple Zoom with Safari magnifier at 200% and 400%.", "objective": "Verify critical journey, reading and input with the real Apple Zoom with Safari magnifier at 200% and 400%.", "test_subject": "The frozen desktop task executed with the named screen magnifier and browser at recorded magnification levels.", "test_targets": [ "The selected content, focus movement and complete task relevant to critical journey, reading and input." ], "applicability": "Apply Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input when the frozen desktop task executed with the named screen magnifier and browser at recorded magnification levels. The selected focus is critical journey, reading and input.", "applicability_questions": [ "Does the frozen scope contain a target relevant to critical journey, reading and input?", "Are the required real environments, versions and settings identified separately from diagnostic simulations?", "Which default, revealed, error, interruption, recovery and confirmation states can change the result?", "Does a scope exclusion need to be reported separately from target applicability?" ], "inapplicability_conditions": [ "The frozen scope contains no content, focus movement or task relevant to critical journey, reading and input." ], "assumptions": [ "The selected scope identifies the product version, technologies, states and important user journeys being evaluated.", "The tester knows how to use this method and any required assistive technology.", "Known browser or assistive-technology limitations are recorded instead of being assigned to the product without evidence." ], "accessibility_support_assumptions": [ "The result covers only the browsers, platforms, readers and assistive technologies that were actually tested.", "Do not apply a result from one technology combination to an untested combination or to every user." ], "prerequisites": [ "The product area and test targets are agreed before testing starts.", "The operating system, browser, viewport and input method are recorded.", "Test data is safe to use and does not expose unnecessary personal information." ], "required_environment_fields": [ "operating_system", "operating_system_version", "browser", "browser_version", "viewport_css_pixels", "input_method", "assistive_technology", "assistive_technology_version", "magnification_level", "magnifier_view_mode", "display_scale" ], "steps": [ { "step_id": "S1", "title": "Prepare the scope, target and environment", "phase": "prepare", "test_target": "The selected content, focus movement and complete task relevant to critical journey, reading and input.", "required_state": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, the product version and scope are frozen; every selected target and material starting state is uniquely identified.", "tool_or_command": "Use the scope record and worksheet environment fields for Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input: operating_system, operating_system_version, browser, browser_version, viewport_css_pixels, input_method, assistive_technology, assistive_technology_version, magnification_level, magnifier_view_mode, display_scale.", "action": "Before executing Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, freeze the product version and scope. Inventory each applicable target, select the required starting states, prepare safe test data and record every required environment value. Complete any named known-good calibration before attributing an observation to the product.", "expected": "The selected targets, states, test data, environment and any scope limitations are complete enough for another qualified tester to reproduce the setup.", "failure_observation": "During Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, the target, starting state, environment or scope record remains ambiguous for the scenario named Prepare the scope, target and environment. The preparation result cannot be demonstrated: The selected targets, states, test data, environment and any scope limitations are complete enough for another qualified tester to reproduce the setup.", "evidence_to_record": "Scope/version reference; target inventory; starting states; safe-data reference; every required environment value; calibration result or reason it is not required.", "decision_effect": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, an incomplete setup blocks the affected execution or leaves the omitted target untested; it never creates a pass or product failure.", "recovery_or_repeat": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, correct the setup gap, preserve the original blocked record and start a new execution observation before proceeding.", "novice_guidance": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, do not begin from an undocumented browser tab, document copy, device state, participant plan or evidence set. Record the exact item you will test first.", "limitations_and_claim_boundary": "This scenario records the action named Prepare the scope, target and environment for Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input in macos-zoom-safari. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision.", "scenario_purpose": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, prepare the named scenario: Prepare the scope, target and environment. Target: The selected content, focus movement and complete task relevant to critical journey, reading and input. The preparation must establish this result: The selected targets, states, test data, environment and any scope limitations are complete enough for another qualified tester to reproduce the setup.", "user_impact": "Focus, text cursors, remote changes or task context may move outside the magnified viewport. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Prepare the scope, target and environment.", "decision_rules": { "passed": "Record passed for the Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input scenario named Prepare the scope, target and environment only when the evidence (Scope/version reference; target inventory; starting states; safe-data reference; every required environment value; calibration result or reason it is not required.) supports: The selected targets, states, test data, environment and any scope limitations are complete enough for another qualified tester to reproduce the setup.", "failed": "Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: During Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, the target, starting state, environment or scope record remains ambiguous for the scenario named Prepare the scope, target and environment. The preparation result cannot be demonstrated: The selected targets, states, test data, environment and any scope limitations are complete enough for another qualified tester to reproduce the setup.", "not_applicable": "The frozen scope contains no content, focus movement or task relevant to critical journey, reading and input.", "blocked": "Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed." } }, { "step_id": "S2", "title": "Execute in each required view mode supported by the platform, including full-screen and at least one lens, docked, split or picture-in-picture mode", "phase": "test", "action": "Execute in each required view mode supported by the platform, including full-screen and at least one lens, docked, split or picture-in-picture mode.", "expected": "No view-mode-specific barrier is hidden by a passing full-screen result.", "evidence_to_record": "Panning path, visible viewport, focus/text-cursor/pointer tracking and remote-content change. Record panning path, focus/text-cursor tracking, remote content changes, clipped information and every unmagnified visual intervention.", "test_target": "The selected content, focus movement and complete task relevant to critical journey, reading and input.", "required_state": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, begin in the recorded default state for the selected critical journey, reading and input target before this action; preserve the exact content, account, platform and configuration used.", "tool_or_command": "In macos-zoom-safari, Use the named real screen magnifier at the recorded magnification and view mode. Follow keyboard focus, text cursor and pointer tracking while completing the action; browser zoom alone is not magnifier evidence.", "decision_effect": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, compare the recorded observation with this expected result: No view-mode-specific barrier is hidden by a passing full-screen result. A material mismatch fails this target expectation; conflicting platform or responsibility evidence is cannot tell, not a pass.", "recovery_or_repeat": "Repeat at the procedure's required magnification levels and view modes, including dialogs, errors, notifications and other remote changes. Preserve the first Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input observation when repeating.", "novice_guidance": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input: Keep the magnified viewport visible and record where focus, the pointer or a remote update moves outside it. Do not infer a failure solely from a cropped screenshot.", "scenario_purpose": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, execute the named scenario: Execute in each required view mode supported by the platform, including full-screen and at least one lens, docked, split or picture-in-picture mode. Target: The selected content, focus movement and complete task relevant to critical journey, reading and input. Compare the observation with this result: No view-mode-specific barrier is hidden by a passing full-screen result.", "user_impact": "Focus, text cursors, remote changes or task context may move outside the magnified viewport. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Execute in each required view mode supported by the platform, including full-screen and at least one lens, docked, split or picture-in-picture mode.", "failure_observation": "After the tester completes the Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input scenario named Execute in each required view mode supported by the platform, including full-screen and at least one lens, docked, split or picture-in-picture mode, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: No view-mode-specific barrier is hidden by a passing full-screen result.", "decision_rules": { "passed": "Record passed for the Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input scenario named Execute in each required view mode supported by the platform, including full-screen and at least one lens, docked, split or picture-in-picture mode only when the evidence (Panning path, visible viewport, focus/text-cursor/pointer tracking and remote-content change. Record panning path, focus/text-cursor tracking, remote content changes, clipped information and every unmagnified visual intervention.) supports: No view-mode-specific barrier is hidden by a passing full-screen result.", "failed": "Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: After the tester completes the Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input scenario named Execute in each required view mode supported by the platform, including full-screen and at least one lens, docked, split or picture-in-picture mode, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: No view-mode-specific barrier is hidden by a passing full-screen result.", "not_applicable": "The frozen scope contains no content, focus movement or task relevant to critical journey, reading and input.", "blocked": "Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed." }, "limitations_and_claim_boundary": "This scenario records the action named Execute in each required view mode supported by the platform, including full-screen and at least one lens, docked, split or picture-in-picture mode for Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input in macos-zoom-safari. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision." }, { "step_id": "S3", "title": "Complete critical journeys at 400% magnification", "phase": "test", "action": "At 400% magnification, read instructions and complete each critical success, validation and recovery journey using keyboard and the configured magnifier controls.", "expected": "Text remains readable, related labels and inputs can be understood together, and every action completes without unmagnified visual fallback.", "evidence_to_record": "Reading, input, validation, recovery and every unmagnified visual intervention. Record panning path, focus/text-cursor tracking, remote content changes, clipped information and every unmagnified visual intervention.", "test_target": "The selected content, focus movement and complete task relevant to critical journey, reading and input.", "required_state": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, begin in the validation-error state immediately after submitting representative invalid input; preserve the exact content, account, platform and configuration used.", "tool_or_command": "In macos-zoom-safari, Use the named real screen magnifier at the recorded magnification and view mode. Follow keyboard focus, text cursor and pointer tracking while completing the action; browser zoom alone is not magnifier evidence.", "decision_effect": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, compare the recorded observation with this expected result: Text remains readable, related labels and inputs can be understood together, and every action completes without unmagnified visual fallback. A material mismatch fails this target expectation; conflicting platform or responsibility evidence is cannot tell, not a pass.", "recovery_or_repeat": "Repeat at the procedure's required magnification levels and view modes, including dialogs, errors, notifications and other remote changes. Preserve the first Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input observation when repeating.", "novice_guidance": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input: Keep the magnified viewport visible and record where focus, the pointer or a remote update moves outside it. Do not infer a failure solely from a cropped screenshot.", "scenario_purpose": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, execute the named scenario: Complete critical journeys at 400% magnification. Target: The selected content, focus movement and complete task relevant to critical journey, reading and input. Compare the observation with this result: Text remains readable, related labels and inputs can be understood together, and every action completes without unmagnified visual fallback.", "user_impact": "Focus, text cursors, remote changes or task context may move outside the magnified viewport. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Complete critical journeys at 400% magnification.", "failure_observation": "After the tester completes the Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input scenario named Complete critical journeys at 400% magnification, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Text remains readable, related labels and inputs can be understood together, and every action completes without unmagnified visual fallback.", "decision_rules": { "passed": "Record passed for the Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input scenario named Complete critical journeys at 400% magnification only when the evidence (Reading, input, validation, recovery and every unmagnified visual intervention. Record panning path, focus/text-cursor tracking, remote content changes, clipped information and every unmagnified visual intervention.) supports: Text remains readable, related labels and inputs can be understood together, and every action completes without unmagnified visual fallback.", "failed": "Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: After the tester completes the Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input scenario named Complete critical journeys at 400% magnification, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Text remains readable, related labels and inputs can be understood together, and every action completes without unmagnified visual fallback.", "not_applicable": "The frozen scope contains no content, focus movement or task relevant to critical journey, reading and input.", "blocked": "Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed." }, "limitations_and_claim_boundary": "This scenario records the action named Complete critical journeys at 400% magnification for Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input in macos-zoom-safari. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision." }, { "step_id": "S4", "title": "Repeat material variations and recovery", "phase": "test", "test_target": "The selected content, focus movement and complete task relevant to critical journey, reading and input.", "required_state": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input: Default, revealed, loading, empty, validation error, interruption, recovery and confirmation where meaningful. Every required environment, viewport, orientation, language and authenticated state recorded in the frozen scope.", "tool_or_command": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, use the same recorded method, then change only the state, environment or recovery condition being compared.", "action": "Repeat the Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input action for each inventoried variation that can change the outcome. Include relevant default, revealed, error, interruption, recovery and confirmation states and complete the selected process from start to finish where this test can affect task completion.", "expected": "Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.", "failure_observation": "After the tester completes the Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input scenario named Repeat material variations and recovery, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.", "evidence_to_record": "Variation identifier; changed state or environment; start and end points; actual observation; recovery result; intervention; evidence reference and target outcome.", "decision_effect": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, a reproduced mismatch fails the affected target; an omitted required variation remains untested; conflicting evidence remains cannot tell.", "recovery_or_repeat": "Repeat this action for every required variation of Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input and after a material target, content, state, environment or configuration change. Preserve the original observation.", "novice_guidance": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, change one material condition at a time where practical. Do not assume that a passing default state covers errors, overlays, orientation changes, interruptions or recovery.", "limitations_and_claim_boundary": "This scenario records the action named Repeat material variations and recovery for Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input in macos-zoom-safari. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision.", "scenario_purpose": "For Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, execute the named scenario: Repeat material variations and recovery. Target: The selected content, focus movement and complete task relevant to critical journey, reading and input. Compare the observation with this result: Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.", "user_impact": "Focus, text cursors, remote changes or task context may move outside the magnified viewport. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Repeat material variations and recovery.", "decision_rules": { "passed": "Record passed for the Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input scenario named Repeat material variations and recovery only when the evidence (Variation identifier; changed state or environment; start and end points; actual observation; recovery result; intervention; evidence reference and target outcome.) supports: Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.", "failed": "Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: After the tester completes the Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input scenario named Repeat material variations and recovery, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.", "not_applicable": "The frozen scope contains no content, focus movement or task relevant to critical journey, reading and input.", "blocked": "Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed." } } ], "expectations": [ { "expectation_id": "E1", "statement": "Text remains readable, related labels and inputs can be understood together, and every action completes without unmagnified visual fallback.", "outcome_if_unmet": "failed" } ], "exceptions": [ "Use only an exception stated in the relevant standard, or an agreed out-of-scope decision. Record the reason and evidence.", "A tool limitation, lack of time or unavailable assistive technology is a limitation or incomplete result, not a pass." ], "outcome_definitions": { "passed": "The applicable test target meets every expectation in this rule or procedure.", "failed": "The applicable test target does not meet at least one expectation in this rule or procedure.", "inapplicable": "The test subject contains no target that matches this rule or procedure's applicability.", "cantTell": "The tester cannot fully determine applicability or whether every expectation is met.", "untested": "The test subject or target was not evaluated using this rule or procedure." }, "examples": [ { "example_id": "A11Y-MZOM-002-EX-PASSED", "outcome": "passed", "scenario": "Representative calibration example, not client evidence. Procedure: Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input. Target: The selected content, focus movement and complete task relevant to critical journey, reading and input. Action: Before executing Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input, freeze the product version and scope. Inventory each applicable target, select the required starting states, prepare safe test data and record every required environment value. Complete any named known-good calibration before attributing an observation to the product. Evidence: Scope/version reference; target inventory; starting states; safe-data reference; every required environment value; calibration result or reason it is not required. Observed result: The selected targets, states, test data, environment and any scope limitations are complete enough for another qualified tester to reproduce the setup." }, { "example_id": "A11Y-MZOM-002-EX-FAILED", "outcome": "failed", "scenario": "Representative calibration example, not client evidence. Procedure: Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input. Target: The selected content, focus movement and complete task relevant to critical journey, reading and input. The tester completes the recorded action, but the captured evidence does not demonstrate: The selected targets, states, test data, environment and any scope limitations are complete enough for another qualified tester to reproduce the setup. The failed target and state remain separate from unexecuted targets." }, { "example_id": "A11Y-MZOM-002-EX-INAPPLICABLE", "outcome": "inapplicable", "scenario": "Representative scope example, not client evidence. The frozen scope contains no content, focus movement or task relevant to critical journey, reading and input. The completed inventory is retained as the basis for the inapplicable outcome." }, { "example_id": "A11Y-MZOM-002-EX-CANTTELL", "outcome": "cantTell", "scenario": "Representative unresolved example, not client evidence. The target is applicable, but conflicting evidence or unresolved responsibility prevents a defensible expectation decision after recorded comparison. The record identifies the conflicting evidence and the expertise or comparison needed to resolve it." }, { "example_id": "A11Y-MZOM-002-EX-UNTESTED", "outcome": "untested", "scenario": "Representative execution-gap example, not client evidence. An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed. The missing action, state or environment remains open and is not converted to a pass." } ], "sampling_rule": "Run each selected critical journey from start to finish, including its main error and recovery paths. Record which journeys and states were included.", "complete_process_requirement": "If this check is part of a user journey, test the selected journey from start to finish, including relevant errors and recovery. Record any path that was not tested.", "pass_criteria": "Text remains readable, related labels and inputs can be understood together, and every action completes without unmagnified visual fallback.", "fail_criteria": "Fail if any applicable sampled instance does not satisfy: Text remains readable, related labels and inputs can be understood together, and every action completes without unmagnified visual fallback.", "evidence_requirements": [ "Magnifier/browser versions, display resolution/scale, magnification, view mode, tracking and colour settings.", "Panning path, visible viewport, focus/text-cursor/pointer tracking and remote-content change.", "Reading, input, validation, recovery and every unmagnified visual intervention." ], "official_source_ids": [ "W3C-WCAG22", "GOVUK-AT-TESTING", "APPLE-ZOOM-MAC", "W3C-WCAG22-TECHNIQUES" ], "act_rule_mapping": { "format_alignment": "This is a project-authored manual procedure, not a W3C Approved ACT Rule.", "approved_rule_ids": [], "approved_rules": [], "mapping_status": "No supporting ACT rule selected", "registry_reviewed_at": "2026-08-27", "registry_source_id": "W3C-ACT-RULES", "mapping_rationale": "An ACT result can support only the part of this procedure covered by that rule. It does not replace the remaining manual or assistive-technology checks." }, "technique_traceability": [ { "wcag_criterion": "1.4.4", "understanding_url": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/resize-text.html", "techniques_registry_source_id": "W3C-WCAG22-TECHNIQUES", "technique_ids_applied": [], "failure_ids_applied": [], "selection_status": "Select relevant techniques during the test", "selection_note": "Techniques are examples, not extra requirements. Record any technique or common failure used, but decide the result against the success criterion." }, { "wcag_criterion": "1.4.10", "understanding_url": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/reflow.html", "techniques_registry_source_id": "W3C-WCAG22-TECHNIQUES", "technique_ids_applied": [], "failure_ids_applied": [], "selection_status": "Select relevant techniques during the test", "selection_note": "Techniques are examples, not extra requirements. Record any technique or common failure used, but decide the result against the success criterion." }, { "wcag_criterion": "2.1.1", "understanding_url": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/keyboard.html", "techniques_registry_source_id": "W3C-WCAG22-TECHNIQUES", "technique_ids_applied": [], "failure_ids_applied": [], "selection_status": "Select relevant techniques during the test", "selection_note": "Techniques are examples, not extra requirements. Record any technique or common failure used, but decide the result against the success criterion." } ], "platform_ids": [ "macos-zoom-safari" ], "review_requirement": "A qualified accessibility reviewer must confirm the scope, evidence and result before it is reported as final.", "known_issues": [ "Check relevant browser, tool or assistive-technology release notes before assigning unexpected behaviour to the product.", "If responsibility is unclear, record the reproducible behaviour and use cannot tell until it is resolved." ], "change_log": [ { "version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "change": "Reworked for plain language, case-focused steps, scoped evidence and transparent draft review status." }, { "version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "change": "Case-specific specialist content, evidence and platform boundaries completed for hash-bound agent verification." }, { "version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "change": "Removed administrative filler steps, added contextual risk and result boundaries, and prepared the concise worksheet flow for internal consistency review." } ], "tags": [ "200-percent", "400-percent", "real-at", "screen-magnifier", "screen_magnification" ], "status": "draft", "authoring_readiness": "content_complete", "short_title": "Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input", "catalogue_version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "identity": { "stable_case_id": "A11Y-MZOM-002", "procedure_title": "Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input", "short_user_centred_title": "Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input", "procedure_version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "catalogue_version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "status": "draft", "category": "screen_magnification", "procedure_type": "journey", "execution_class": "real_device_manual", "intended_tester_expertise": "Experienced magnifier tester", "effort_model": { "model": "component_effort_v2", "small_scope_minutes": { "minimum": 69, "maximum": 100 }, "warning": "Add a new per-target execution and evidence allowance for each additional target class or state that could produce a different result. Add setup time for each distinct environment.", "calculation_guidance": "Add the recorded setup, per-target execution, evidence and technical-review components; then apply the stated variation rule.", "unit": "minutes", "setup": { "typical": 20, "includes": "Confirm scope and target, prepare safe data, establish the required state and record the tool or environment version." }, "per_target_execution": { "typical": 25, "includes": "Perform the procedure once for one target in its selected states; this excludes remediation and retesting." }, "evidence_capture": { "typical": 12, "includes": "Capture, name and cross-reference the minimum reproducible evidence while removing unnecessary personal or secret data." }, "technical_review": { "typical": 12, "includes": "Check applicability, observations, outcome logic, evidence sufficiency and report wording before issue publication." }, "typical_total_range": { "minimum": 69, "maximum": 100 }, "assumptions": "one short journey at one magnification level and view mode; repeat levels or tracking modes that change interaction", "variation": "Add a new per-target execution and evidence allowance for each additional target class or state that could produce a different result. Add setup time for each distinct environment.", "excludes": "Client coordination, inaccessible-environment recovery, recruitment, legal review, remediation implementation and waiting time unless the procedure states otherwise." }, "related_procedures": [ "A11Y-WCAG-015", "A11Y-WCAG-017", "A11Y-WCAG-021" ], "replaces": [], "replaced_by": [] }, "purpose_and_user_impact": { "barrier_detected": "Checks critical journey, reading and input with the real Apple Zoom with Safari magnifier at 200% and 400%.", "people_likely_affected": [ "People with low vision who use operating-system or specialist screen magnification." ], "functionality_or_information_at_risk": "Focus, text cursors, remote changes or task context may move outside the magnified viewport.", "result_scope": "platform_interoperability", "claim_boundary": "This procedure records how Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input behaves on macos-zoom-safari. It can expose evidence relevant to WCAG 1.4.4, 1.4.10 and 2.1.1 for the tested task and environment. Use the linked conformance procedures for WCAG 1.4.4, 1.4.10 and 2.1.1 to assess the complete requirements across the declared conformance scope.", "why_it_matters": "Focus, text cursors, remote changes or task context may move outside the magnified viewport. The procedure is necessary because checks critical journey, reading and input with the real Apple Zoom with Safari magnifier at 200% and 400% and the result can otherwise conceal a material barrier for the affected people named here." }, "requirement_mappings": [ { "source_id": "W3C-WCAG22", "requirement_id": "1.4.4", "requirement_level": "AA", "requirement_type": "secondary", "coverage_type": "partial", "canonical_source": "https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/", "source_status": "W3C Recommendation", "source_version_or_publication_date": "WCAG 2.2; 12 December 2024 Recommendation", "date_verified": "2026-08-27", "reviewer_notes": "The mapping describes the intended scope of this draft procedure. Independent standards review remains required.", "limitations": "This Screen-magnifier journey observes Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input in the recorded macos-zoom-safari environment. Use the linked WCAG 1.4.4 conformance procedure to evaluate all normative parts of WCAG 1.4.4 across the declared scope.", "dependent_fields": [ "applicability_model", "normative_exceptions", "steps", "decision_logic" ] }, { "source_id": "W3C-WCAG22", "requirement_id": "1.4.10", "requirement_level": "AA", "requirement_type": "secondary", "coverage_type": "partial", "canonical_source": "https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/", "source_status": "W3C Recommendation", "source_version_or_publication_date": "WCAG 2.2; 12 December 2024 Recommendation", "date_verified": "2026-08-27", "reviewer_notes": "The mapping describes the intended scope of this draft procedure. Independent standards review remains required.", "limitations": "This Screen-magnifier journey observes Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input in the recorded macos-zoom-safari environment. Use the linked WCAG 1.4.10 conformance procedure to evaluate all normative parts of WCAG 1.4.10 across the declared scope.", "dependent_fields": [ "applicability_model", "normative_exceptions", "steps", "decision_logic" ] }, { "source_id": "W3C-WCAG22", "requirement_id": "2.1.1", "requirement_level": "AA", "requirement_type": "secondary", "coverage_type": "partial", "canonical_source": "https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/", "source_status": "W3C Recommendation", "source_version_or_publication_date": "WCAG 2.2; 12 December 2024 Recommendation", "date_verified": "2026-08-27", "reviewer_notes": "The mapping describes the intended scope of this draft procedure. Independent standards review remains required.", "limitations": "This Screen-magnifier journey observes Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input in the recorded macos-zoom-safari environment. Use the linked WCAG 2.1.1 conformance procedure to evaluate all normative parts of WCAG 2.1.1 across the declared scope.", "dependent_fields": [ "applicability_model", "normative_exceptions", "steps", "decision_logic" ] }, { "source_id": "GOVUK-AT-TESTING", "requirement_id": "GOVUK-AT-TESTING", "requirement_level": "informative", "requirement_type": "platform", "coverage_type": "supporting", "canonical_source": "https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/testing-with-assistive-technologies", "source_status": "government_guidance", "source_version_or_publication_date": "Current first-party publication; exact version pending source review", "date_verified": "2026-08-27", "reviewer_notes": "Supporting source. Procedure-level content review remains recorded separately.", "limitations": "This source does not override WCAG or create an additional WCAG conformance requirement.", "dependent_fields": [ "prerequisites", "environment", "steps" ] }, { "source_id": "APPLE-ZOOM-MAC", "requirement_id": "APPLE-ZOOM-MAC", "requirement_level": "informative", "requirement_type": "platform", "coverage_type": "supporting", "canonical_source": "https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/zoom-in-on-your-mac-screen-mchl779716b8/mac", "source_status": "vendor_guidance", "source_version_or_publication_date": "Current first-party publication; exact version pending source review", "date_verified": "2026-08-27", "reviewer_notes": "Supporting source. Procedure-level content review remains recorded separately.", "limitations": "This source does not override WCAG or create an additional WCAG conformance requirement.", "dependent_fields": [ "prerequisites", "environment", "steps" ] }, { "source_id": "W3C-WCAG22-TECHNIQUES", "requirement_id": "W3C-WCAG22-TECHNIQUES", "requirement_level": "informative", "requirement_type": "platform", "coverage_type": "supporting", "canonical_source": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Techniques/", "source_status": "living_guidance", "source_version_or_publication_date": "Techniques for WCAG 2.2", "date_verified": "2026-08-27", "reviewer_notes": "Supporting source. Procedure-level content review remains recorded separately.", "limitations": "This source does not override WCAG or create an additional WCAG conformance requirement.", "dependent_fields": [ "prerequisites", "environment", "steps" ] } ], "applicability_model": { "test_subject": "The frozen desktop task executed with the named screen magnifier and browser at recorded magnification levels.", "test_targets": [ "The selected content, focus movement and complete task relevant to critical journey, reading and input." ], "objective_questions": [ "Does the frozen scope contain a target relevant to critical journey, reading and input?", "Are the required real environments, versions and settings identified separately from diagnostic simulations?", "Which default, revealed, error, interruption, recovery and confirmation states can change the result?", "Does a scope exclusion need to be reported separately from target applicability?" ], "subjective_judgements": [ "Record any judgement about meaning, equivalence, task success, platform responsibility or exception use with evidence for independent review." ], "inapplicability_conditions": [ "The frozen scope contains no content, focus movement or task relevant to critical journey, reading and input." ], "scope_exclusions": [ "An agreed exclusion is a reporting limitation, not an inapplicable target and not a pass." ], "required_states_and_variations": [ "Default, revealed, loading, empty, validation error, interruption, recovery and confirmation where meaningful.", "Every required environment, viewport, orientation, language and authenticated state recorded in the frozen scope." ], "complete_process_dependencies": "Run each selected critical process from its defined start through success, at least one representative error, interruption and recovery, and confirmation where the focus can affect task completion.", "conforming_alternate_version_considerations": "A conforming alternate version can affect a WCAG report only when all WCAG conformance conditions are verified separately. It does not erase a platform or usability observation." }, "normative_exceptions": [], "normative_exceptions_absent_reason": "This platform, journey, usability or quality procedure creates no additional normative exception. Apply exceptions only in the linked atomic or criterion-level conformance procedure and preserve that separate decision.", "environment": { "required_tester_expertise": "Experienced magnifier tester", "required_platforms": [ "macos-zoom-safari" ], "minimum_environment_fields": [ "operating_system", "operating_system_version", "browser", "browser_version", "viewport_css_pixels", "input_method", "assistive_technology", "assistive_technology_version", "magnification_level", "magnifier_view_mode", "display_scale" ], "product_and_content_version_required": true, "viewport_and_orientation_required": true, "input_mode_required": true, "relevant_settings": [ "Magnifier version", "Magnification level", "View mode", "Focus/text-cursor/pointer tracking", "Colour settings", "Display resolution and scale" ], "known_platform_limitations": [ "Screen magnification and browser zoom are different technologies. Coverage applies only to the exact recorded magnifier/browser configuration.", "Check relevant browser, tool or assistive-technology release notes before assigning unexpected behaviour to the product.", "If responsibility is unclear, record the reproducible behaviour and use cannot tell until it is resolved." ], "clean_state_requirements": [ "Complete a known-good calibration in the same environment before product testing.", "Start from a recorded clean or known state and preserve any prior preferences, extensions, cache or profile settings that can affect output." ], "test_data_and_privacy_constraints": [ "Use authorised synthetic or controlled data.", "Do not record credentials, secrets or unnecessary personal data." ], "coverage_boundary": "Screen magnification and browser zoom are different technologies. Coverage applies only to the exact recorded magnifier/browser configuration." }, "decision_logic": { "target_passed": "Text remains readable, related labels and inputs can be understood together, and every action completes without unmagnified visual fallback.", "target_failed": "An applicable critical journey, reading and input target has a reproducible material barrier against one or more stated expectations; identify the exact expectation, state and evidence.", "target_inapplicable": "The frozen scope contains no content, focus movement or task relevant to critical journey, reading and input.", "target_cant_tell": "The target is applicable, but conflicting evidence or unresolved responsibility prevents a defensible expectation decision after recorded comparison.", "target_untested": "An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed.", "aggregation": "Preserve every target/environment outcome. Any failed target prevents an overall passed procedure result. cantTell and untested remain unresolved; inapplicable is valid only when the completed inventory contains no applicable target.", "wcag_requirement_decision": "This specialist, platform, document, usability or quality result does not set a WCAG success criterion to satisfied or not_satisfied automatically. Use linked atomic and criterion-level procedures for that separate decision.", "conforming_alternate_version_effect": "Record alternate-version evidence separately. It does not erase a barrier in this tested version or environment.", "passed_automation_follow_up": "A checker, accessibility-tree inspection, emulator or simulated assistive technology is diagnostic evidence only. Complete every required manual, real-platform, contextual and exception check.", "platform_responsibility": "Compare the product with a known-good control and an authorised alternate environment. Record product defect, external limitation or unresolved responsibility only when evidence supports it; otherwise use cantTell.", "claim_readiness": "Schema validation or a passed target never creates a conformance or release claim. Required executions, a distinct competent review, limitations and any applicable legal, participant or organisational authority remain separate gates." }, "evidence_specification": [ { "evidence_id": "EV1", "method": "environment_record", "record": "Magnifier/browser versions, display resolution/scale, magnification, view mode, tracking and colour settings.", "review_purpose": "Allow an independent reviewer to reproduce the target, environment, action, actual behaviour and decision.", "privacy_and_security": "Reference or redact sensitive material. Do not store credentials, secrets, unnecessary personal data or unconsented participant data.", "required_for_formal_result": true }, { "evidence_id": "EV2", "method": "viewport_record", "record": "Panning path, visible viewport, focus/text-cursor/pointer tracking and remote-content change.", "review_purpose": "Allow an independent reviewer to reproduce the target, environment, action, actual behaviour and decision.", "privacy_and_security": "Reference or redact sensitive material. Do not store credentials, secrets, unnecessary personal data or unconsented participant data.", "required_for_formal_result": true }, { "evidence_id": "EV3", "method": "journey_record", "record": "Reading, input, validation, recovery and every unmagnified visual intervention.", "review_purpose": "Allow an independent reviewer to reproduce the target, environment, action, actual behaviour and decision.", "privacy_and_security": "Reference or redact sensitive material. Do not store credentials, secrets, unnecessary personal data or unconsented participant data.", "required_for_formal_result": true } ], "calibration_examples": [ { "example_id": "A11Y-MZOM-002-EX-PASS", "outcome": "passed", "scenario": "In macos-zoom-safari, the selected critical journey, reading and input target completes the recorded action and meets this expectation: Text remains readable, related labels and inputs can be understood together, and every action completes without unmagnified visual fallback.", "explanation": "The example is a calibration scenario, not an execution or approval.", "fixture_id": "", "fixture_version": "", "machine_testable": false }, { "example_id": "A11Y-MZOM-002-EX-FAIL", "outcome": "failed", "scenario": "An applicable critical journey, reading and input target produces a reproducible barrier during the named action, with the exact state and affected user task recorded.", "explanation": "A failed target remains failed even if another environment or target passes.", "fixture_id": "", "fixture_version": "", "machine_testable": false }, { "example_id": "A11Y-MZOM-002-EX-INAPPLICABLE", "outcome": "inapplicable", "scenario": "The frozen scope contains no content, focus movement or task relevant to critical journey, reading and input.", "explanation": "Inapplicable requires a completed inventory showing that no target matches applicability; a missing environment is not inapplicable.", "fixture_id": "", "fixture_version": "", "machine_testable": false }, { "example_id": "A11Y-MZOM-002-EX-CANTTELL", "outcome": "cantTell", "scenario": "The critical journey, reading and input target is applicable, but conflicting product/platform evidence or missing authoritative information prevents a defensible responsibility or expectation decision.", "explanation": "Record the conflict, comparisons attempted and person or evidence needed to resolve it.", "fixture_id": "", "fixture_version": "", "machine_testable": false }, { "example_id": "A11Y-MZOM-002-EX-UNTESTED", "outcome": "untested", "scenario": "The critical journey, reading and input target is applicable, but a required state, complete process or real environment was not executed.", "explanation": "Untested remains incomplete and cannot be converted to passed or inapplicable.", "fixture_id": "", "fixture_version": "", "machine_testable": false } ], "review_record": { "author": "", "method_reviewer": "", "independent_standards_reviewer": "", "accessibility_ui_reviewer": "", "author_date": "", "method_review_date": "", "standards_review_date": "", "ui_review_date": "", "source_versions_reviewed": [], "exceptions_reviewed": false, "known_limitations": [ "Screen magnification and browser zoom are different technologies. Coverage applies only to the exact recorded magnifier/browser configuration.", "Real execution evidence and any customer-required legal, participant or organisational authority remain separate." ], "open_issues": [ "Execute all required real environments and calibration cases.", "Complete a distinct competent review and retain any unresolved material finding as blocked or cantTell." ], "decision": "pending", "next_review_date": "", "status_transition_reason": "", "release_gate_id": "", "release_gate_completed_at": "", "approval_authority": "", "approval_date": "" }, "privacy_and_security": { "browser_storage": "Worksheet data is stored only in this browser's local storage until the user exports or clears it.", "network_transmission": "The static library does not upload worksheet data.", "data_minimisation": "Record only evidence necessary to reproduce and review the decision.", "redaction": "Remove credentials, secrets and unnecessary personal or participant data before export or sharing.", "retention_and_deletion": "Apply the engagement retention schedule and clear local browser data when it is no longer required." }, "version_history": [ { "version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "change": "Reworked for plain language, case-focused steps, scoped evidence and transparent draft review status." }, { "version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "change": "Migrated to professional catalogue schema v3 with separated outcomes, structured authority, applicability, evidence, decision and review records." }, { "version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "change": "Specialist procedure mapped to its task family and current first-party platform guidance and checked for internal consistency; competent review and real execution remain separate." }, { "version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "change": "Added explicit preparation and variation/recovery steps plus a bounded representative worked example for paid-template use." }, { "version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "change": "Procedure guidance and presentation simplified without changing draft governance status." } ], "migration": { "from_schema": "accessibility-test-catalog.v2", "from_procedure_version": "2026.08.04.1", "migrated_at": "2026-08-27", "content_review_state": "commercial_completeness_upgrade_agent_verified", "stable_identifier_preserved": true, "legacy_url_preserved": true, "delivery_model": "professional_delivery_v2", "agent_content_validation": { "status": "complete", "method": "case_specific_semantic_and_operational_checks_v1", "checked_fields": [ "target", "state", "tool", "action", "expected_observation", "failure_observation", "evidence", "outcome_rules", "claim_boundary", "compact_examples" ], "human_approval_effect": "none" } }, "test_type": "platform_interoperability", "related_procedures": [ "A11Y-WCAG-015", "A11Y-WCAG-017", "A11Y-WCAG-021" ], "platform_validation": { "required": true, "evidence_status": "not_executed", "real_device_or_at_claimed": false, "required_environment_ids": [ "macos-zoom-safari" ], "calibration_required": true, "evidence_refs": [], "limitations": "Screen magnification and browser zoom are different technologies. Coverage applies only to the exact recorded magnifier/browser configuration." }, "effort_guidance": { "unit": "minutes", "setup": { "typical": 20, "includes": "Confirm scope and target, prepare safe data, establish the required state and record the tool or environment version." }, "per_target_execution": { "typical": 25, "includes": "Perform the procedure once for one target in its selected states; this excludes remediation and retesting." }, "evidence_capture": { "typical": 12, "includes": "Capture, name and cross-reference the minimum reproducible evidence while removing unnecessary personal or secret data." }, "technical_review": { "typical": 12, "includes": "Check applicability, observations, outcome logic, evidence sufficiency and report wording before issue publication." }, "typical_total_range": { "minimum": 69, "maximum": 100 }, "assumptions": "one short journey at one magnification level and view mode; repeat levels or tracking modes that change interaction", "variation": "Add a new per-target execution and evidence allowance for each additional target class or state that could produce a different result. Add setup time for each distinct environment.", "excludes": "Client coordination, inaccessible-environment recovery, recruitment, legal review, remediation implementation and waiting time unless the procedure states otherwise." }, "worked_examples": [ { "example_id": "A11Y-MZOM-002-WORKED-001", "example_kind": "representative_synthetic_example", "context": "Representative synthetic example for Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input on a fictional, version-frozen product target; no client or participant execution occurred.", "inspected": "The tester follows S2 (Execute in each required view mode supported by the platform, including full-screen and at least one lens, docked, split or picture-in-picture mode) using the target, required state, tool and repeat rule stated in this procedure.", "observed_output": "After the tester completes the Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input scenario named Execute in each required view mode supported by the platform, including full-screen and at least one lens, docked, split or picture-in-picture mode, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: No view-mode-specific barrier is hidden by a passing full-screen result.", "evidence_captured": [ "example-evidence-001: target and state record for The selected content, focus movement and complete task relevant to critical journey, reading and input.", "example-evidence-002: contemporaneous observation from the named method — Panning path, visible viewport, focus/text-cursor/pointer tracking and remote-content change. Record panning path, focus/text-cursor tracking, remote content changes, clipped information and every unmagnified visual intervention.", "example-evidence-003: comparison note linking the actual observation to the expected result and claim boundary" ], "tester_reasoning": "The recorded observation does not demonstrate the expected result: No view-mode-specific barrier is hidden by a passing full-screen result. The failed decision is limited to this synthetic target and state; unexecuted coverage is not inferred.", "decision": "failed", "completed_finding": { "finding_id": "A11Y-MZOM-002-example-finding-001", "title": "Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input: expected result is not demonstrated", "severity": "high", "user_impact": "The represented barrier may affect People with low vision who use operating-system or specialist screen magnification.", "evidence_refs": [ "example-evidence-001", "example-evidence-002", "example-evidence-003" ] }, "remediation_advice": "Change the represented target or process so it demonstrates this result: No view-mode-specific barrier is hidden by a passing full-screen result. Then rerun the affected step and every dependent variation.", "reviewer_feedback": "The reviewer confirms applicability, environment, actual-versus-expected comparison, evidence references and bounded wording; unsupported product-wide or conformance language is removed.", "final_client_report_wording": "Synthetic training finding: the sampled Apple Zoom with Safari: critical journey, reading and input target does not meet the procedure expectation in the recorded state. User impact and broader scope require evidence from the buyer's real execution.", "retest_outcome": "Synthetic retest example: after the represented change, repeat the failed step plus material error and recovery states. Close the finding only when new evidence demonstrates the expected result; otherwise retain the non-pass outcome.", "claim_boundary": "This is a representative, synthetic worked example for training and calibration. It is not evidence from a client product, participant or real assistive-technology execution." } ] }