Complementary guidelines
In addition to the mandatory rules detailed in the previous chapters of this manual, taking into account the additional recommendations below is beneficial for people with disabilities.
We therefore strongly recommend that you apply them.
- Tag abbreviations with
<abbr>
- Add file format and size to all download links and buttons
- Combine adjacent links pointing to the same page
- Do not disable the zoom with the
user-scalableproperty - Do not use CSS to display images that carry information
- Identify the current position in navigation systems with
aria-current - In forms with multiple steps, identify the current step using
aria-current="step" - Logically organize the items of dropdown lists
- Make sure that hidden content is translated
- Send a notification when a new window is opened
- Update the page
<title>when an error or confirmation message is displayed - Use only relative sizes (
rem,em,%, etc.) for media query breakpoints