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WCAG 4.1.3

Status Messages

  • Level AA
  • WCAG 2.1
  • Principle 4: Robust
  • EN 301 549: 9.4.1.3

In short

Status messages are programmatically determinable through role or properties.

How Percelia tests it

Percelia detects some cases automatically with rules; the rest needs AI or human judgment. Anything ambiguous goes to human review.

This criterion is judgment-bound and is always put to a human reviewer at Percelia, even at high confidence.

Official source

W3C Understanding document (w3.org)

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