WCAGAA

How to test criterion 3.2.3 “Consistent Navigation — Navigational mechanisms that are repeated on multiple web pages within a set of web pages occur in the same relative order each time they are repeated, unless a change is initiated by the user.”

WCAG references: 3.2.3 Consistent Navigation (AA)

What this criterion says

Navigational mechanisms that are repeated on multiple web pages within a set of web pages occur in the same relative order each time they are repeated, unless a change is initiated by the user.

Official methodology to test criterion 3.2.3

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.

Sufficient techniques

G61 Presenting repeated components in the same relative order each time they appear

Advisory techniques

Common failures

F66 Failure of Success Criterion 3.2.3 due to presenting navigation links in a different relative order on different pages