5 Conformance

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Principle: 5 Conformance

This section covers methods for achieving the various levels of compliance, from Level A through Level AAA.

1 Normative Requirements

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Guideline: 5.1 Interpreting Normative Requirements

The main content of WCAG 2.1 is normative and defines requirements that impact conformance claims. Introductory material, appendices, sections marked as “non-normative”, diagrams, examples, and notes are informative (non-normative). Non-normative material provides advisory information to help interpret the guidelines but does not create requirements that impact a conformance claim.

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2 Conformance Requirements

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Guideline: 5.2 Conformance Requirements

In order for a Web page to conform to WCAG 2.1, all of the conformance requirements for the specific conformance level must be satisfied, i.e., Level A; Level AA; or Level AAA.

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3 Conformance Claims

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Guideline: 5.3 Conformance Claims (Optional)

Conformance is defined only for Web pages. However, a conformance claim may be made to cover one page, a series of pages, or multiple related Web pages.

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4 Conformance 3rd Party

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Guideline: 5.4 Statement of Partial Conformance Third Party Content

Sometimes, Web pages are created that will later have additional content added to them. For example, an email program, a blog, an article that allows users to add comments, or applications supporting user-contributed content. Another example would be a page, such as a portal or news site, composed of content aggregated from multiple contributors, or sites that automatically insert content from other sources over time, such as when advertisements are inserted dynamically.

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5 Conformance Language

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Guideline: 5.5 Statement of Partial Conformance Language

A “statement of partial conformance due to language” may be made when the page does not conform, but would conform if accessibility support existed for (all of) the language(s) used on the page. The form of that statement would be, “This page does not conform, but would conform to WCAG 2.1 at level X if accessibility support existed for the following language(s):”