This page contains all guidelines tagged with:

Cognitive

This refers to a diversity of cognitive disabilities and can also encompass neurodivergent, intellectually disabled, and developmentally disabled needs. Access in this category usually pertains to making things easy to understand and providing support when needed.

Cognitive

Provide a way to turn off moving content and animation triggered by interaction

Only change the context by user request

Use hover and focus best practices

Make multiple types of input available

Ensure the programmatic label matches the visual label

Label elements and give instructions

Allow users to save data after a session timeout

Warn users about timeouts

Provide the option to turn off interruptions

Make time limits adjustable or not essential

Prevent errors when handling legal and financial data

Prevent accidental pointer input

Provide contextual help

Suggest corrections to errors

Identify and describe errors to users

Provide more than one way to locate a page

Make sure the user knows where they are

Use consistent navigation

Provide consistent UI components

Write instructions that don't rely on just one characteristic

Write descriptive page titles

Write descriptive link text

Write descriptive headings and labels

Provide pronunciation for ambiguous words

Write content at an approachable reading level

Provide a way to expand abbreviations

Provide a way to understand unusual words and phrases

Provide a way to pause audio that plays automatically