- Success Criterion 1.3.2
- Conformance level A
Prices or Labels Positioned Visually Near the Wrong Product in Code
1.3.2 — Meaningful Sequence
Scenario
Setting
A photo-sharing app's upload screen
What’s wrong
Absolutely positioned prices/labels visually adjacent to products but located elsewhere in page code (DOM).
Example
This shows up on a photo-sharing app's upload screen: absolutely positioned prices/labels visually adjacent to products but located elsewhere in page code (DOM).
Why it matters
Screen-reader and keyboard users who encounter content in DOM order. Here, on a photo-sharing app's upload screen, the result is they can't tell what's going on without extra effort.
How to test
Disable CSS around prices/labels near products: if they're absolutely positioned, check whether their DOM position matches their visual adjacency to the product.
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
After the fix, the same visitor to a photo-sharing app's upload screen can now understand how the page is organized.
Who is affected
Screen-reader and keyboard users who encounter content in DOM order.
Learn more
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