WCAGAA
How to test criterion 3.2.4 “Consistent Identification — Components that have the same functionality within a set of web pages are identified consistently.”
- WCAG references
- 3.2.4 Consistent Identification (AA)
What this criterion says
Components that have the same functionality within a set of web pages are identified consistently.
Official methodology to test criterion 3.2.4
Official W3C techniques
The W3C does not publish a test procedure for this criterion. It publishes techniques instead: documented ways to meet it, and the failures that do not.
Sufficient techniques
All of the following
- G197 Using labels, names, and text alternatives consistently for content that has the same functionality
- following the <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/non-text-content#techniques">sufficient techniques for Success Criterion 1.1.1</a> and <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/name-role-value#techniques">sufficient techniques for Success Criterion 4.1.2</a> for providing labels, names, and text alternatives