Making accessibility standards easy to understand, one success criterion at a time.

level: AAA

Level AAA is the highest level of compliance, making the most accommodations for the broadest range of people. It’s hard to achieve due to the number of rules and sometimes conflicting requirements. Successfully implement every success criterion under Level AAA, AA, and A to achieve this standard.

WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 Level AAA

1.2.6 Sign Language (Pre-recorded)

All prerecorded videos have sign language interpretation.

Sensory, Wording
Auditory/Hearing
Content
WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 Level AAA

1.2.7 Extended Audio Description (Pre-recorded)

Video is sometimes paused in order to give enough time for audio descriptions to be conveyed properly.

Sensory, Wording
Visual
Content
WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 Level AAA

1.2.8 Media Alternative (Pre-recorded)

A text-based transcription of a video is offered, on top of closed captions and audio description.

Sensory, Wording
Cognitive, Visual
Content
WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 Level AAA

1.2.9 Audio-only (Live)

Live captioning is provided for live audio.

Sensory, Wording
Auditory/Hearing
Content
WCAG 2.1, 2.2 Level AAA

1.3.6 Identify Purpose

Landmark regions and personalization semantics are used, allowing browser tools to remove non-essential content or add identifying icons to specific elements on the page.

Forms
Cognitive, Visual
Code
WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 Level AAA

1.4.6 Contrast (Enhanced)

Text has a contrast ratio of 7:1 to 1. Large text can be a 4.5 to 1 ratio if it’s over 24px, or bold and over 19px.

Sensory, Zoom and Legibility
Visual
Design
WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 Level AAA

1.4.7 Low or No Background Audio

For spoken audio content, any background noise or music is 20 decibels lower than the foreground speech.

Sensory
Auditory/Hearing
Content
WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 Level AAA

1.4.8 Visual Presentation

For blocks of text, justification should be avoided, line-height should be at least 1.5, width should not exceed 80 characters, and users should be able to set text and background colors.

Sensory, Zoom and Legibility
Cognitive, Visual
Design
WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 Level AAA
WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 Level AAA

2.1.3 Keyboard (No Exception)

You can navigate and interact with a page using the keyboard alone.

Keyboard
Cognitive, Physical/Motor, Visual
Content, Design