Assessment Methodology

Characterizing Level of Support

Support for a role, state, or property

Each test of the experience using an assistive technology to access an ARIA design pattern implementation is associated with a role, state, or property. That role, state or property is said to be:

• Fully supported by an assistive technology if all tests pass.
• Partially supported if some of the tests pass.
• Not supported if none of the tests pass.
• Incorrectly supported if at least one test yields results that are misleading or incorrect.

All support is contextual. That is, a role, state, or property may be supported in one implementation of a design pattern and not supported in a different implementation of the same pattern or the implementation of a another pattern that uses the same role, state, or property.