SC 3.1.3 Unusual Words

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Unusual words: A mechanism is available for identifying specific definitions of words

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or phrases used in an unusual or restricted way, including idioms and jargon.

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So this starts the long row, well, not that long, it's like four or five things, but the

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row of triple A success criteria.

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So this is basically if you have a word or phrase that is unusual or restricted, then

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you want to explain that somehow.

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And that can be like a click to expand type of interaction or you can link to a glossary.

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And that is also in the understanding document what WCAG proposes.

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you have a site-wide general glossary, which you know, where you can link to, or you have a glossary

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on the page where you link to, but it's important to like explain those texts, so, or these words.

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And as the example, they have the example that WCAG 2 uses the word text in a very specific way.

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And so you need the definition provided because you can't, you know, the general, what everyone is thinking of text is not necessarily what WCAG 2 thinks of a text, which is, yeah, it's a challenge, like especially in technical documents, you often run into these types of situations.