- Success Criterion 3.3.2
- Conformance level A
Radio Button Group Missing Its Question or Prompt Text
3.3.2 — Labels or Instructions
Scenario
Setting
A food delivery app's restaurant menu
What’s wrong
Group prompts missing: radio set with options but no question text.
Example
A food delivery app's restaurant menu runs into this exact issue: group prompts missing: radio set with options but no question text.
Why it matters
Everyone filling forms, especially people with cognitive disabilities and magnifier users. Here, on a food delivery app's restaurant menu, the result is they have to guess at the correct format.
How to test
Look at a radio/checkbox group: if the options are listed with no question or prompt text identifying what they're choosing between, it fails.
How to fix
A persistent visible label must be provided, required status must be marked visually AND programmatically (with any symbol explained), and format rules stated before input.
Outcome
After the fix, the same visitor to a food delivery app's restaurant menu can now see exactly what went wrong and how to fix it.
Who is affected
Everyone filling forms, especially people with cognitive disabilities and magnifier users.
Learn more
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