WCAG in Plain English

Rotating a device from portrait to landscape doesn’t stop everything being perfectly readable and usable.

Content must remain readable and usable without requiring horizontal scrolling when viewed at a width of 320 CSS pixels (typically the width of a mobile viewport). Layouts should adapt responsively, and text should reflow to fit the screen.

Tooltips and similar content should stay visible, be easy to dismiss (usually with the Esc key), and let users select and interact with the text.

All actions that are carried out using a gesture (swiping, pinching, and so on) or drawing, can also be done with a button or buttons.

Actions (like pressing a button) aren’t triggered on mouse-down; rather on mouse-up.

There is no reliance on device motion, like shaking or tilting, to carry out an action.

Anything clickable must be at least 44 by 44 pixels, except links within a sentence which are okay to be the size of the text they encompass.

The user can happily switch between using a mouse, touchscreen, keyboard, or any other input device.

Any action requiring dragging, such as reordering items, must also be possible using buttons or other non-drag methods.

Clickable elements must be at least 24 by 24 pixels, except for inline links.