- Success Criterion 1.3.1
- Conformance level A
Price Strikethrough Shown Only Visually, Not in the Markup
1.3.1 — Info and Relationships
Scenario
Setting
A food-delivery app's order-tracking screen
What’s wrong
Semantics conveyed by strike-through/highlight (e.g., old vs — sale price) with no markup (inserted/deleted-text code (del/ins)/text).
Example
<div class="heading">Shipping Address</div>Why it matters
Screen-reader, braille, and reading-tool users who depend on coded structure rather than visual layout.
How to test
Inspect elements styled to look emphasized/structural (bold price, indented note) in DevTools: if there's no matching semantic tag (strong, blockquote) behind the style, it fails.
How to fix
Convey the distinction in markup (inserted/deleted-text code (del/ins)) or text (e.g., 'was ₹999, now ₹799'), not styling alone.
<h2>Shipping Address</h2>A real heading element exposes the section structure to assistive tech; a styled div doesn't.
Outcome
On a food-delivery app's order-tracking screen, this barrier is gone for screen-reader, braille — they no longer have to work around this.
Who is affected
Screen-reader, braille, and reading-tool users who depend on coded structure rather than visual layout.
Learn more
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