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WCAGA

How to test criterion 2.5.1 “Pointer Gestures — All functionality that uses multipoint or path-based gestures for operation can be operated with a single pointer without a path-based gesture, unless a multipoint or path-based gesture is essential.”

WCAG references
  • 2.5.1 Pointer Gestures (A)

What this criterion says

All functionality that uses multipoint or path-based gestures for operation can be operated with a single pointer without a path-based gesture, unless a multipoint or path-based gesture is essential.

Note

This requirement applies to web content that interprets pointer actions (i.e., this does not apply to actions that are required to operate the user agent or assistive technology).

Official methodology to test criterion 2.5.1

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.