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POUR One Out
100

An item typically used to surround images to differentiate them from their background.

What are borders?

100
These are used in PowerPoint to differentiate slides for accessibility tools.

What are titles?

100

This is typically used to denote any text meant to be readable by a wide audience.

What is plain language or Easy Read?

100

These are used to determine reading order in PDFs.

What are tags?

100

For WCAG guidelines, the four principles of accessibility are referred to with the acronym POUR, which stands for this.

What is Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust?

200

Text and images will usually follow a contrast ratio of 4.5:1, except for the following: Incidental text, Logotypes, and this.

What is Large Text / Large scale text.

200

It needs to be filled in for a screen reader to function in Excel or spreadsheets, typically with the title of the worksheet.

What is Cell A1?

200

For abbreviations, This can be used in HTML documents to provide a definition.

What is the <abbr> element?

200

Usually done by Lindsay, Acrobat Pro has this option built in for text recognition.

What is OCR?

200
Items being presentable in ways users can experience, such as alt text, would fall under this WCAG guideline.

What is Perceivable?

300

the IAAP prefers that you utilize this HTML coding family member to create unique text, rather than utilizing static images.

What is CSS?

300

These are avoided when working with Excel documents, to prevent users from being confused about a table ending early.

What are blank cells?

300

For abbreviations, you can often link to definitions, or use a link to this included list of words in a document.

What is a glossary?

300

Table headers need this to be read in a PDF.

What is Scope?

300

Making sure things are keyboard accessible falls under this WCAG principle.

What is Operable?

400

This can be applied to things like pie charts and graphs in order to bypass color contrast requirements.

What are labels and values?

400

You'll want to avoid using the header and footers in the document, and use these instead.

What are title and heading styles?

400

The reading level recommended by WCAG 2 for the AAA-level accessibility.

What is 5-7th grade?

400

This tag can be used in PDFs to hide decorative images.

What is the Artifact tag?

400

Predictability in format and function falls under this WCAG guideline.

What is Understandable?

500

The contrast ratio utilized for color and background.

What is 3:1?

500

For PowerPoint, it is used to make sure text is displayed in the correct order for screen readers.

What is the Reading Order pane?

500

Microsoft's Accessibility Checker has four levels; Error, Warning, Tip, and this, which needs to be manually reviewed for accuracy.

What is Intelligent Services?

500
in a PDF, this can be used to document definitions for abbreviations.

What is an /E element?

500

The WCAG Guidelines to prevent seizures limit the amount of times an item can flash per second to this number.

What is three?

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