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✎ Technique: Pointer gestures

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All operations must use simple gestures that need only a single touch. If the site or application does use multi-touch gestures, be sure to also provide simple interfaces. 

✎ Technique: Motion actuation

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Ensure that functions that are triggered by moving a device or by gesturing towards the device can also be operated by more conventional user interface components.

✎ Technique: Status messages

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Assistive technology users should be able to detect when important changes occur on a web page, With the use of a status message, information can be provided to the user without changing focus or unnecessarily interrupting their work.

✎ Technique: Choosing a media player

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Media player accessibility is essential for video content. Evaluate the accessibility and cross-device compatibility of the media player that comes with your video-distribution platform.

✎ Technique: Site search

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It's important the search facility on your site is logically and conventionally placed and constructed for optimal accessibility.

✎ Technique: Site and page navigation

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It's important to provide consistent navigation regions to navigate between a site's pages and—where there is a lot content on each page—between sections of pages.

✎ Technique: Session extension

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For a number of reasons including data persistence, performance and security, it is sometimes beneficial to terminate idle user sessions. It's important to warn people a session is about to expire and give them the option to continue.

✎ Technique: Accessible modal dialogs

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Modal dialogs can enhance usability by focusing attention on a specific message that requires a user action to continue.

An accessible modal dialog is one where keyboard focus is managed properly, and the correct information is exposed to screen readers.