Design Nomenclature / Systems & Spec

POUR

Also called perceivable operable understandable robust, the four principles

The four principles WCAG's success criteria are organised beneath: perceivable, operable, understandable, robust. A filing system rather than a test — nothing is measured at principle level — but a decent triage for asking why something failed before arguing about which criterion it failed under.

A two-column comparison. Left, the four POUR principles — perceivable, operable, understandable, robust — none of which is measurable in itself. Right, the success criteria filed beneath them, each testable and graded A, AA, or AAA. Only the right-hand column is what an audit checks.

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Level AAScreen readerSemantic markupWCAGPOUR
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