The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) were developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and are widely accepted as the go-to standard for digital accessibility conformance. At the core of WCAG are testable requirements known as success criteria, with each one assigned a level.
2.5.3: Label in Name is a WCAG 2.1, Level A success criterion and states that for user interface components with labels that include text or images of text, the accessible name must contain the text that is presented visually.
One of the Level A Success Criteria of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) states that users should be able to determine the purpose of each link on a website from the link text alone, or from the link text together with its programmatically determined context.
We often take for granted the sheer amount of information and content contained in an image, chart, animation, or map. WCAG 1.1.1 Non-Text Content allows information like this to be consumed by people with visual impairments and similar disabilities.
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