WCAG in Plain English

Each page has a unique title element that describes what’s on that page.

A link’s destination must be clear from either the link text itself or the surrounding sentence context.

Headings are descriptive of the content that they contain, form labels clearly describe what information is required, and buttons inform the user what will happen when they’re pressed.

It is clear where a link will take you from the link text alone, without having to read the text around it.

Headings are used to group distinct sections on a page.

Any parts of the page that are in a different language to the page itself are marked up with the appropriate lang value. Names and phrases derived from other languages, like “Déjà vu” in English, don’t need this.

Jargon and figurative language is avoided, or, where not it’s possible, the words are defined or clarified the first time they’re used on a page.

Acronyms and shortened words should be avoided when possible. When they are used, they must be defined the first time they appear on a page.

Content is written in a way that most people with a lower secondary education (around 8th or 9th grade) can understand, or a simpler version is provided.

If a word can be pronounced more than one way, and each way has a different meaning, the meaning is clarified to avoid ambiguity.