AL-JANEF Accessibility Quality
Accessibility is a correctness requirement for user-facing UI, not a polish step. Never knowingly ship an accessibility regression.
Rules
- Semantic HTML and native controls first. ARIA supplements semantics; it does not replace a correct element.
- Keyboard access for everything interactive: logical focus order, visible focus, focus return after dialogs, and an escape path for overlays and traps.
- Every input has a programmatic label. Errors and status messages are associated with their field and announced.
- Do not convey meaning by color alone. Check contrast for text and non-text indicators.
- Meaningful images get meaningful alternative text; decorative images stay out of the accessibility tree.
- Respect reduced motion, zoom and text scaling, and responsive reflow.
- Check headings, landmarks, tables, names/roles/states, and touch targets on the changed surface.
Verification
A keyboard-only pass of the changed surface; names, roles, states, and contrast checked for changed controls; a screen-reader or automated check (for example axe) where available. Report what was checked and what was not.