{"id":1087,"date":"2025-07-24T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/web-kb\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2025-07-24T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:38:08","slug":"accessibility-techniques-common-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/web-kb\/2025\/07\/24\/accessibility-techniques-common-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility Techniques: Common Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/#failures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/#failures<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F1\">F1: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.2 due to changing the meaning of content by positioning information with CSS<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F2\">F2: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 due to using changes in text presentation to convey information without using the appropriate markup or text<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F3\">F3: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 due to using CSS to include images that convey important information<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F7\">F7: Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.2 due to an object or applet \u2026 for more than five seconds<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F8\">F8: Failure of Success Criterion 1.2.2 due to captions omitting some dialogue or important sound effects<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F9\">F9: Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.5 due to changing the context when the user removes focus from a form element<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F10\">F10: Failure of Success Criterion 2.1.2 and Conformance Requirement 5 due to combining multiple content formats in a way that traps users inside one format type<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F12\">F12: Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.5 due to having a session time limit without a mechanism \u2026 re-authentication<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F13\">F13: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 and 1.4.1 due to having a text alternative that does not include information that is conveyed by color differences in the image<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F14\">F14: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.3 due to identifying content only by its shape or location<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F15\">F15: Failure of Success Criterion 4.1.2 due to implementing custom controls that do not use an accessibility API for the technology, or do so incompletely<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F16\">F16: Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.2 due to including scrolling content where movement is not essential to the activity without also including a mechanism to pause and restart the content<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F19\">F19: Failure of Conformance Requirement 1 due to not providing a method for the user to find the alternative conforming version of a non-conforming web page<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F20\">F20: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 and 4.1.2 due to not updating text alternatives when changes to non-text content occur<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F22\">F22: Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.5 due to opening windows that are not requested by the user<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F23\">F23: Failure of 1.4.2 due to playing a sound longer than 3 seconds where there is no mechanism to turn it off<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F24\">F24: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.3, 1.4.6 and 1.4.8 due to specifying foreground colors without specifying background colors or vice versa<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F25\">F25: Failure of Success Criterion 2.4.2 due to the title of a web page not identifying the contents<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F26\">F26: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.3 due to using a graphical symbol alone to convey information<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F30\">F30: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 and 1.2.1 due to using text alternatives that are not alternatives (e.g., filenames or placeholder text)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F31\">F31: Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.4 due to using two different labels for the same function on different web pages within a set of web pages<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F32\">F32: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.2 due to using white space characters to control spacing within a word<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F33\">F33: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 due to using white space characters to create multiple columns in plain text content<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F34\">F34: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 due to using white space characters to format tables in plain text content<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F36\">F36: Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.2 due to automatically submitting a form and \u2026 given a value<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F37\">F37: Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.2 due to launching a new window without prior warning when the selection of a radio button, check box or select list is changed<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F38\">F38: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 due to not marking up decorative images in HTML in a way that allows assistive technology to ignore them<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F39\">F39: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 due to providing a text alternative that is not null (e.g., alt=&#8221;spacer&#8221; or alt=&#8221;image&#8221;) for images that should be ignored by assistive technology<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F40\">F40: Failure due to using meta redirect with a time limit<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F41\">F41: Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.1, 2.2.4, and 3.2.5 due to using meta refresh to reload the page<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F42\">F42: Failure of Success Criteria 1.3.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.3, or 4.1.2 when emulating links<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F43\">F43: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 due to using structural markup in a way that does not represent relationships in the content<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F44\">F44: Failure of Success Criterion 2.4.3 due to using tabindex to create a tab order that does not preserve meaning and operability<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F46\">F46: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 due to using th elements, \u2026 layout tables<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F48\">F48: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 due to using the pre element to markup tabular information<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F49\">F49: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.2 due to using an HTML layout table that does not make sense when linearized<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F50\">F50: Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.2 due to a script that causes a blink effect without a mechanism to stop the blinking at 5 seconds or less<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F52\">F52: Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.5 due to opening a new window as soon as a new page is loaded<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F54\">F54: Failure of Success Criterion 2.1.1 due to using only pointing-device-specific event handlers (including gesture) for a function<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F55\">F55: Failure of Success Criteria 2.1.1, 2.4.7, and 3.2.1 due to using script to remove focus when focus is received<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F58\">F58: Failure of Success Criterion 2.2.1 due to using server-side techniques to automatically redirect pages after a time-out<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F59\">F59: Failure of Success Criterion 4.1.2 due to using script to make div or span a user interface control in HTML without providing a role for the control<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F60\">F60: Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.5 due to launching a new window when a user enters text into an input field<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F61\">F61: Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.5 due to complete change of main content through an automatic update that the user cannot disable from within the content<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F63\">F63: Failure of Success Criterion 2.4.4 due to providing link context only in content that is not related to the link<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F65\">F65: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 due to omitting the alt attribute or text alternative on img elements, area elements, and input elements of type &#8220;image&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F66\">F66: Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.3 due to presenting navigation links in a different relative order on different pages<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F67\">F67: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 and 1.2.1 due to providing long descriptions for non-text content that does not serve the same purpose or does not present the same information<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F68\">F68: Failure of Success Criterion 4.1.2 due to a user interface control not having a programmatically determined name<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F69\">F69: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.4 when resizing visually rendered text up to 200 percent causes the text, image or controls to be clipped, truncated or obscured<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F70\">F70: Failure of Success Criterion 4.1.1 due to incorrect use of start and end tags or attribute markup<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F71\">F71: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 due to using text look-alikes to represent text without providing a text alternative<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F72\">F72: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 due to using ASCII art without providing a text alternative<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F73\">F73: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.1 due to creating links that are not visually evident without color vision<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F74\">F74: Failure of Success Criterion 1.2.2 and 1.2.8 due to not labeling a synchronized media alternative to text as an alternative<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F75\">F75: Failure of Success Criterion 1.2.2 by providing synchronized media without captions when the synchronized media presents more information than is presented on the page<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F77\">F77: Failure of Success Criterion 4.1.1 due to duplicate values of type ID<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F78\">F78: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.11 and 2.4.7 due to styling element outlines and borders in a way that removes or renders non-visible the visual focus indicator<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F79\">F79: Failure of Success Criterion 4.1.2 due to the focus state of a user interface component not being programmatically determinable or no notification of change of focus state available<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F80\">F80: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.4 when text-based form controls do not resize when visually rendered text is resized up to 200%<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F81\">F81: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.1 due to identifying required or error fields using color differences only<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F82\">F82: Failure of Success Criterion 3.3.2 by visually formatting a set of phone number fields but not including a text label<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F83\">F83: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.3 and 1.4.6 due to using background images that do not provide sufficient contrast with foreground text (or images of text)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F84\">F84: Failure of Success Criterion 2.4.9 due to using a non-specific link such as &#8220;click here&#8221; or &#8220;more&#8221; without a mechanism to change the link text to specific text.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F85\">F85: Failure of Success Criterion 2.4.3 due to using dialogs or menus that are not adjacent to their trigger control in the sequential navigation order<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F86\">F86: Failure of Success Criterion 4.1.2 due to not providing names for each part of a multi-part form field, such as a US telephone number<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F88\">F88: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.8 due to using text that is justified (aligned to both the left and the right margins)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F89\">F89: Failure of Success Criteria 2.4.4, 2.4.9 and 4.1.2 due to not providing an accessible name for an image which is the only content in a link<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F90\">F90: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 for incorrectly associating table headers and content via the headers and id attributes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F91\">F91: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 for not correctly marking up table headers<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F92\">F92: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 due to the use of role presentation on content which conveys semantic information<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F93\">F93: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.2 for absence of a way to pause or stop an HTML5 media element that autoplays<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F94\">F94: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.4 due to incorrect use of viewport units to resize text<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F95\">F95: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.13 due to content shown on hover not being hoverable<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F96\">F96: Failure due to the accessible name not containing the visible label text<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F97\">F97: Failure due to locking the orientation to landscape or portrait view<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F98\">F98: Failure due to interactions being limited to touch-only on touchscreen devices<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F99\">F99: Failure of Success Criterion 2.1.4 due to implementing character key shortcuts that cannot be turned off or remapped<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F100\">F100: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.4 due to showing a message asking to reorient device<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F101\">F101: Failure of Success Criterion 2.5.2 due to activating a control on the down-event<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F102\">F102: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.10 due to content disappearing and not being available when content has reflowed<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F103\">F103: Failure of Success Criterion 4.1.3 due to providing status messages that cannot be programmatically determined through role or properties<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F104\">F104: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.12 due to clipped or overlapped content when text spacing is adjusted<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F105\">F105: Failure of Success Criterion 2.5.1 due to providing functionality via a path-based gesture without simple pointer alternative<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F106\">F106: Failure due to inability to deactivate motion actuation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F107\">F107: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.5 due to incorrect autocomplete attribute values<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/failures\/F111\">F111: Failure of Success Criteria 1.3.1, 2.5.3, and 4.1.2 due to a control 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