- Success Criterion 1.3.2
- Conformance level A
Print or PDF Export That Produces a Scrambled Reading Order
1.3.2 — Meaningful Sequence
Scenario
Setting
A grocery delivery app's shopping cart
What’s wrong
Newspaper-style print stylesheets/PDF export producing wrong linear order.
Example
On a grocery delivery app's shopping cart: newspaper-style print stylesheets/PDF export producing wrong linear order.
Why it matters
Screen-reader and keyboard users who encounter content in DOM order. On a grocery delivery app's shopping cart, that means they can't tell how the page is organized.
How to test
Export the page to PDF or apply a print stylesheet, then read it linearly: check whether the linearized order still makes sense.
How to fix
The screen reader must read content in an order matching the visual/logical order, item by item — nothing skipped, merged, fragmented, or added.
Outcome
With the fix in place on a grocery delivery app's shopping cart, they navigate the content in a sensible order.
Who is affected
Screen-reader and keyboard users who encounter content in DOM order.
Learn more
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