• Success Criterion 3.3.4
  • Conformance level AA

Legal Commitment Submitted With No Review-and-Confirm Step

3.3.4 — Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data)

Scenario

Setting

A podcast app's episode list

What’s wrong

Legal commitments (e-signature, consent) submitted without a review-and-confirm stage.

Example 

<input type="checkbox" id="agree"> I agree to the distribution terms
<button onclick="submitEpisode()">Submit episode</button>
<!-- checking the box and clicking submit immediately binds the podcaster to the terms with no summary shown -->

Why it matters

A podcaster agrees to licensing terms they never actually saw summarized, only linked, and later finds their revenue share was lower than expected.

How to test

Submit a legal commitment (e-signature, consent): if there's no review-and-confirm stage before it's final, it fails.

How to fix

Surface the key terms directly, then add one more explicit confirm step before the commitment is binding.

<input type="checkbox" id="agree"> I have reviewed the terms below
<div class="terms-summary">Revenue share: 70/30. Distribution rights: non-exclusive, 12 months.</div>
<button onclick="showFinalConfirm()">Submit episode</button>
<!-- final confirm screen restates these terms before the binding submit fires -->

Outcome

The podcaster reads the actual revenue terms and confirms with full knowledge of what they're agreeing to.

Who is affected

People with cognitive disabilities and screen reader users who need key contract terms surfaced directly, not buried in a linked document.

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