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Software Accessibility Guidelines
508 Conformance Evaluation Methodologies
Provision A
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Provision H

Check Your Knowledge

Assistive devices are not able to convey information communicated by animation. Read the question below and select the response that is most accurate. You will receive immediate feedback.

What can a developer do that would insure that the meaning of an animation is conveyed to users with visual disabilities?

  1. *Enable the user to utilize hot keys to retrieve the information.
  2. Insert alternative text code in the program.
  3. Enable the user to roll over the animation to retrieve the information.
  4. Insert text onto the animated image.

You selected “A. Enable the user to utilize hot keys to retrieve the information.”

That is incorrect. The correct response is "B. Insert alternative text code in the program." Alternative text code is an excellent way to inform a user about what is going on within an animation. This type of code can be easily read by a screen reader and quickly communicated to the user. Code needs to contain a brief description of the object as well an explanation of the information being conveyed by its actions.

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