{ "test_case_id": "A11Y-ZOOM-005", "title": "Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus", "category": "zoom_reflow", "procedure_version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "rule_type": "atomic", "wcag_criteria": [ "1.4.10", "2.4.7", "2.4.11" ], "level": "AA", "risk": "medium", "risk_basis": "Checks zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus using real browser or operating-system controls. People most likely affected: people with low vision who enlarge text or content and people who use narrow viewports. Content, controls, focus or validation may be clipped, overlap or require avoidable two-dimensional scrolling. In the recorded desktop-zoom-reflow environment, inspect navigation, dialogs, validation, sticky regions and horizontal movement at the required magnification; clipped or overlapping content can remove both information and operable controls.", "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": "Zoom and reflow check", "tester_level": "General QA tester", "estimated_duration": "Typically 43–62 minutes for the stated single-target assumptions; use the component breakdown when estimating a real sample.", "execution_class": "manual_with_automation_support", "automation_support": "supporting_evidence_only", "simulation_policy": "simulation_may_support_but_not_replace_manual_execution", "plain_summary": "Checks zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus using real browser or operating-system controls.", "objective": "Verify zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus using real browser or operating-system controls.", "test_subject": "The frozen page or document presentation at the genuine zoom, viewport and text settings named by the procedure.", "test_targets": [ "Each selected page, component and state relevant to Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus." ], "applicability": "Apply Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus when the frozen page or document presentation at the genuine zoom, viewport and text settings named by the procedure. The selected focus is Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus.", "applicability_questions": [ "Does the frozen scope contain a target relevant to Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus?", "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 or state to which Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus can be applied." ], "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", "zoom_level" ], "steps": [ { "step_id": "S1", "title": "Prepare the scope, target and environment", "phase": "prepare", "test_target": "Each selected page, component and state relevant to Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus.", "required_state": "For Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, 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 Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus: operating_system, operating_system_version, browser, browser_version, viewport_css_pixels, input_method, zoom_level.", "action": "Before executing Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, 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 Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, 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 Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, 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 Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, correct the setup gap, preserve the original blocked record and start a new execution observation before proceeding.", "novice_guidance": "For Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, 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 Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus in desktop-zoom-reflow. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision.", "scenario_purpose": "For Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, prepare the named scenario: Prepare the scope, target and environment. Target: Each selected page, component and state relevant to Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus. 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": "Content, controls, focus or validation may be clipped, overlap or require avoidable two-dimensional scrolling. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Prepare the scope, target and environment.", "decision_rules": { "passed": "Record passed for the Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus 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 Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, 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 or state to which Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus can be applied.", "blocked": "Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed." } }, { "step_id": "S2", "title": "At 400%, open dialogs, drawers, cookie notices and sticky navigation", "phase": "test", "action": "At 400%, open dialogs, drawers, cookie notices and sticky navigation; traverse every control and monitor focused-element visibility.", "expected": "Dialog content reflows, controls remain reachable and focus is visible and not entirely obscured.", "evidence_to_record": "Viewport and full-page evidence for default, revealed, validation, sticky and dialog states. Capture full-page and viewport evidence at the actual zoom level, including any exempt two-dimensional region and its justification.", "test_target": "Each selected page, component and state relevant to Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus.", "required_state": "For Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, begin in keyboard focus on the last confirmed target before the action, with no pointer assistance; preserve the exact content, account, platform and configuration used.", "tool_or_command": "In desktop-zoom-reflow, Use the browser's genuine zoom control and measure the resulting CSS-pixel viewport; use text-only zoom only when the action explicitly asks for it. Developer-tool emulation may diagnose a defect but is not execution evidence.", "decision_effect": "For Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, compare the recorded observation with this expected result: Dialog content reflows, controls remain reachable and focus is visible and not entirely obscured. A material mismatch fails this target expectation; conflicting platform or responsibility evidence is cannot tell, not a pass.", "recovery_or_repeat": "Repeat on each representative template and in opened menus, dialogs, errors, sticky regions and other states that can change layout. Preserve the first Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus observation when repeating.", "novice_guidance": "For Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus: Record the starting viewport, browser zoom, operating-system scale and resulting CSS viewport before judging clipping or two-dimensional scrolling.", "scenario_purpose": "For Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, execute the named scenario: At 400%, open dialogs, drawers, cookie notices and sticky navigation. Target: Each selected page, component and state relevant to Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus. Compare the observation with this result: Dialog content reflows, controls remain reachable and focus is visible and not entirely obscured.", "user_impact": "Content, controls, focus or validation may be clipped, overlap or require avoidable two-dimensional scrolling. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named At 400%, open dialogs, drawers, cookie notices and sticky navigation.", "failure_observation": "After the tester completes the Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus scenario named At 400%, open dialogs, drawers, cookie notices and sticky navigation, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Dialog content reflows, controls remain reachable and focus is visible and not entirely obscured.", "decision_rules": { "passed": "Record passed for the Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus scenario named At 400%, open dialogs, drawers, cookie notices and sticky navigation only when the evidence (Viewport and full-page evidence for default, revealed, validation, sticky and dialog states. Capture full-page and viewport evidence at the actual zoom level, including any exempt two-dimensional region and its justification.) supports: Dialog content reflows, controls remain reachable and focus is visible and not entirely obscured.", "failed": "Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: After the tester completes the Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus scenario named At 400%, open dialogs, drawers, cookie notices and sticky navigation, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Dialog content reflows, controls remain reachable and focus is visible and not entirely obscured.", "not_applicable": "The frozen scope contains no content or state to which Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus can be applied.", "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 At 400%, open dialogs, drawers, cookie notices and sticky navigation for Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus in desktop-zoom-reflow. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision." }, { "step_id": "S3", "title": "Inspect top, middle and end of every representative page and complete critical success, error and recovery journeys using keyboard and pointer", "phase": "test", "action": "Inspect top, middle and end of every representative page and complete critical success, error and recovery journeys using keyboard and pointer.", "expected": "No off-screen, clipped or unreachable content is missed by a static screenshot.", "evidence_to_record": "Viewport and full-page evidence for default, revealed, validation, sticky and dialog states. Capture full-page and viewport evidence at the actual zoom level, including any exempt two-dimensional region and its justification.", "test_target": "Each selected page, component and state relevant to Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus.", "required_state": "For Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, 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 desktop-zoom-reflow, Use the browser's genuine zoom control and measure the resulting CSS-pixel viewport; use text-only zoom only when the action explicitly asks for it. Developer-tool emulation may diagnose a defect but is not execution evidence.", "decision_effect": "For Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, compare the recorded observation with this expected result: No off-screen, clipped or unreachable content is missed by a static screenshot. A material mismatch fails this target expectation; conflicting platform or responsibility evidence is cannot tell, not a pass.", "recovery_or_repeat": "Repeat on each representative template and in opened menus, dialogs, errors, sticky regions and other states that can change layout. Preserve the first Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus observation when repeating.", "novice_guidance": "For Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus: Record the starting viewport, browser zoom, operating-system scale and resulting CSS viewport before judging clipping or two-dimensional scrolling.", "scenario_purpose": "For Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, execute the named scenario: Inspect top, middle and end of every representative page and complete critical success, error and recovery journeys using keyboard and pointer. Target: Each selected page, component and state relevant to Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus. Compare the observation with this result: No off-screen, clipped or unreachable content is missed by a static screenshot.", "user_impact": "Content, controls, focus or validation may be clipped, overlap or require avoidable two-dimensional scrolling. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Inspect top, middle and end of every representative page and complete critical success, error and recovery journeys using keyboard and pointer.", "failure_observation": "After the tester completes the Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus scenario named Inspect top, middle and end of every representative page and complete critical success, error and recovery journeys using keyboard and pointer, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: No off-screen, clipped or unreachable content is missed by a static screenshot.", "decision_rules": { "passed": "Record passed for the Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus scenario named Inspect top, middle and end of every representative page and complete critical success, error and recovery journeys using keyboard and pointer only when the evidence (Viewport and full-page evidence for default, revealed, validation, sticky and dialog states. Capture full-page and viewport evidence at the actual zoom level, including any exempt two-dimensional region and its justification.) supports: No off-screen, clipped or unreachable content is missed by a static screenshot.", "failed": "Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: After the tester completes the Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus scenario named Inspect top, middle and end of every representative page and complete critical success, error and recovery journeys using keyboard and pointer, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: No off-screen, clipped or unreachable content is missed by a static screenshot.", "not_applicable": "The frozen scope contains no content or state to which Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus can be applied.", "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 Inspect top, middle and end of every representative page and complete critical success, error and recovery journeys using keyboard and pointer for Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus in desktop-zoom-reflow. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision." } ], "expectations": [ { "expectation_id": "E1", "statement": "Dialog content reflows, controls remain reachable and focus is visible and not entirely obscured.", "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-ZOOM-005-EX-PASSED", "outcome": "passed", "scenario": "Representative calibration example, not client evidence. Procedure: Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus. Target: Each selected page, component and state relevant to Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus. Action: Before executing Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus, 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-ZOOM-005-EX-FAILED", "outcome": "failed", "scenario": "Representative calibration example, not client evidence. Procedure: Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus. Target: Each selected page, component and state relevant to Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus. 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-ZOOM-005-EX-INAPPLICABLE", "outcome": "inapplicable", "scenario": "Representative scope example, not client evidence. The frozen scope contains no content or state to which Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus can be applied. The completed inventory is retained as the basis for the inapplicable outcome." }, { "example_id": "A11Y-ZOOM-005-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-ZOOM-005-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": "Test every in-scope instance when practical. For a large population, document a sample that includes each template, content or control type, meaningful state and high-risk task.", "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": "Dialog content reflows, controls remain reachable and focus is visible and not entirely obscured.", "fail_criteria": "Fail if any applicable sampled instance does not satisfy: Dialog content reflows, controls remain reachable and focus is visible and not entirely obscured.", "evidence_requirements": [ "Starting viewport, resulting CSS viewport, genuine zoom/text setting, orientation and operating-system scale.", "Viewport and full-page evidence for default, revealed, validation, sticky and dialog states.", "Exact two-dimensional-layout target and evidence that its use or meaning requires that presentation." ], "official_source_ids": [ "W3C-WCAG22", "W3C-RESIZE-TEXT", "W3C-REFLOW", "MICROSOFT-EDGE-A11Y", "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": "1.4.10", "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": "2.4.7", "understanding_url": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/focus-visible.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": "2.4.11", "understanding_url": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/focus-not-obscured-minimum.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": [ "desktop-zoom-reflow" ], "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": [ "genuine-zoom", "reflow", "zoom_reflow" ], "status": "draft", "authoring_readiness": "content_complete", "short_title": "Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus", "catalogue_version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "identity": { "stable_case_id": "A11Y-ZOOM-005", "procedure_title": "Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus", "short_user_centred_title": "Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus", "procedure_version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "catalogue_version": "2026.08.27-rc.9", "status": "draft", "category": "zoom_reflow", "procedure_type": "atomic", "execution_class": "manual_with_automation_support", "intended_tester_expertise": "General QA tester", "effort_model": { "model": "component_effort_v2", "small_scope_minutes": { "minimum": 43, "maximum": 62 }, "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": 12, "includes": "Confirm scope and target, prepare safe data, establish the required state and record the tool or environment version." }, "per_target_execution": { "typical": 15, "includes": "Perform the procedure once for one target in its selected states; this excludes remediation and retesting." }, "evidence_capture": { "typical": 8, "includes": "Capture, name and cross-reference the minimum reproducible evidence while removing unnecessary personal or secret data." }, "technical_review": { "typical": 8, "includes": "Check applicability, observations, outcome logic, evidence sufficiency and report wording before issue publication." }, "typical_total_range": { "minimum": 43, "maximum": 62 }, "assumptions": "one responsive page at the required zoom or viewport settings; repeat for fixed regions and breakpoint-specific layouts", "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-017", "A11Y-WCAG-033", "A11Y-WCAG-034" ], "replaces": [], "replaced_by": [] }, "purpose_and_user_impact": { "barrier_detected": "Checks zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus using real browser or operating-system controls.", "people_likely_affected": [ "People with low vision who enlarge text or content and people who use narrow viewports." ], "functionality_or_information_at_risk": "Content, controls, focus or validation may be clipped, overlap or require avoidable two-dimensional scrolling.", "result_scope": "platform_interoperability", "claim_boundary": "This procedure records how Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus behaves on desktop-zoom-reflow. It can expose evidence relevant to WCAG 1.4.10, 2.4.7 and 2.4.11 for the tested task and environment. Use the linked conformance procedures for WCAG 1.4.10, 2.4.7 and 2.4.11 to assess the complete requirements across the declared conformance scope.", "why_it_matters": "Content, controls, focus or validation may be clipped, overlap or require avoidable two-dimensional scrolling. The procedure is necessary because checks zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus using real browser or operating-system controls and the result can otherwise conceal a material barrier for the affected people named here." }, "requirement_mappings": [ { "source_id": "W3C-WCAG22", "requirement_id": "1.4.10", "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 Zoom and reflow check observes Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus in the recorded desktop-zoom-reflow 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": "2.4.7", "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 Zoom and reflow check observes Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus in the recorded desktop-zoom-reflow environment. Use the linked WCAG 2.4.7 conformance procedure to evaluate all normative parts of WCAG 2.4.7 across the declared scope.", "dependent_fields": [ "applicability_model", "normative_exceptions", "steps", "decision_logic" ] }, { "source_id": "W3C-WCAG22", "requirement_id": "2.4.11", "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 Zoom and reflow check observes Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus in the recorded desktop-zoom-reflow environment. Use the linked WCAG 2.4.11 conformance procedure to evaluate all normative parts of WCAG 2.4.11 across the declared scope.", "dependent_fields": [ "applicability_model", "normative_exceptions", "steps", "decision_logic" ] }, { "source_id": "W3C-RESIZE-TEXT", "requirement_id": "W3C-RESIZE-TEXT", "requirement_level": "informative", "requirement_type": "advisory", "coverage_type": "supporting", "canonical_source": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/resize-text", "source_status": "living_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-REFLOW", "requirement_id": "W3C-REFLOW", "requirement_level": "informative", "requirement_type": "advisory", "coverage_type": "supporting", "canonical_source": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/reflow.html", "source_status": "living_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": "MICROSOFT-EDGE-A11Y", "requirement_id": "MICROSOFT-EDGE-A11Y", "requirement_level": "informative", "requirement_type": "advisory", "coverage_type": "supporting", "canonical_source": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools/accessibility/reference", "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": "advisory", "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 page or document presentation at the genuine zoom, viewport and text settings named by the procedure.", "test_targets": [ "Each selected page, component and state relevant to Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus." ], "objective_questions": [ "Does the frozen scope contain a target relevant to Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus?", "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 or state to which Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus can be applied." ], "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": "General QA tester", "required_platforms": [ "desktop-zoom-reflow" ], "minimum_environment_fields": [ "operating_system", "operating_system_version", "browser", "browser_version", "viewport_css_pixels", "input_method", "zoom_level" ], "product_and_content_version_required": true, "viewport_and_orientation_required": true, "input_mode_required": true, "relevant_settings": [ "Browser zoom", "Viewport CSS pixels", "Operating-system display scale", "Text-only zoom", "Orientation" ], "known_platform_limitations": [ "Emulation can support diagnosis but does not replace the genuine browser or operating-system presentation required by the procedure.", "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": "Emulation can support diagnosis but does not replace the genuine browser or operating-system presentation required by the procedure." }, "decision_logic": { "target_passed": "Dialog content reflows, controls remain reachable and focus is visible and not entirely obscured.", "target_failed": "An applicable Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus 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 or state to which Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus can be applied.", "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": "presentation_measurement", "record": "Starting viewport, resulting CSS viewport, genuine zoom/text setting, orientation and operating-system scale.", "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": "visual_record", "record": "Viewport and full-page evidence for default, revealed, validation, sticky and dialog states.", "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": "exception_record", "record": "Exact two-dimensional-layout target and evidence that its use or meaning requires that presentation.", "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-ZOOM-005-EX-PASS", "outcome": "passed", "scenario": "In desktop-zoom-reflow, the selected Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus target completes the recorded action and meets this expectation: Dialog content reflows, controls remain reachable and focus is visible and not entirely obscured.", "explanation": "The example is a calibration scenario, not an execution or approval.", "fixture_id": "", "fixture_version": "", "machine_testable": false }, { "example_id": "A11Y-ZOOM-005-EX-FAIL", "outcome": "failed", "scenario": "An applicable Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus 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-ZOOM-005-EX-INAPPLICABLE", "outcome": "inapplicable", "scenario": "The frozen scope contains no content or state to which Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus can be applied.", "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-ZOOM-005-EX-CANTTELL", "outcome": "cantTell", "scenario": "The Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus 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-ZOOM-005-EX-UNTESTED", "outcome": "untested", "scenario": "The Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus 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": [ "Emulation can support diagnosis but does not replace the genuine browser or operating-system presentation required by the procedure.", "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-017", "A11Y-WCAG-033", "A11Y-WCAG-034" ], "platform_validation": { "required": true, "evidence_status": "not_executed", "real_device_or_at_claimed": false, "required_environment_ids": [ "desktop-zoom-reflow" ], "calibration_required": true, "evidence_refs": [], "limitations": "Emulation can support diagnosis but does not replace the genuine browser or operating-system presentation required by the procedure." }, "effort_guidance": { "unit": "minutes", "setup": { "typical": 12, "includes": "Confirm scope and target, prepare safe data, establish the required state and record the tool or environment version." }, "per_target_execution": { "typical": 15, "includes": "Perform the procedure once for one target in its selected states; this excludes remediation and retesting." }, "evidence_capture": { "typical": 8, "includes": "Capture, name and cross-reference the minimum reproducible evidence while removing unnecessary personal or secret data." }, "technical_review": { "typical": 8, "includes": "Check applicability, observations, outcome logic, evidence sufficiency and report wording before issue publication." }, "typical_total_range": { "minimum": 43, "maximum": 62 }, "assumptions": "one responsive page at the required zoom or viewport settings; repeat for fixed regions and breakpoint-specific layouts", "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-ZOOM-005-WORKED-001", "example_kind": "representative_synthetic_example", "context": "Representative synthetic example for Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus on a fictional, version-frozen product target; no client or participant execution occurred.", "inspected": "The tester follows S2 (At 400%, open dialogs, drawers, cookie notices and sticky navigation) using the target, required state, tool and repeat rule stated in this procedure.", "observed_output": "After the tester completes the Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus scenario named At 400%, open dialogs, drawers, cookie notices and sticky navigation, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Dialog content reflows, controls remain reachable and focus is visible and not entirely obscured.", "evidence_captured": [ "example-evidence-001: target and state record for Each selected page, component and state relevant to Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus.", "example-evidence-002: contemporaneous observation from the named method — Viewport and full-page evidence for default, revealed, validation, sticky and dialog states. Capture full-page and viewport evidence at the actual zoom level, including any exempt two-dimensional region and its justification.", "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: Dialog content reflows, controls remain reachable and focus is visible and not entirely obscured. The failed decision is limited to this synthetic target and state; unexecuted coverage is not inferred.", "decision": "failed", "completed_finding": { "finding_id": "A11Y-ZOOM-005-example-finding-001", "title": "Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus: expected result is not demonstrated", "severity": "medium", "user_impact": "The represented barrier may affect People with low vision who enlarge text or content and people who use narrow viewports.", "evidence_refs": [ "example-evidence-001", "example-evidence-002", "example-evidence-003" ] }, "remediation_advice": "Change the represented target or process so it demonstrates this result: Dialog content reflows, controls remain reachable and focus is visible and not entirely obscured. 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 Zoomed dialogs, sticky content and focus 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." } ] }