Digital Accessibility Jeopardy
WCAG principles, alt text, color contrast, and keyboard access in one team quiz. The board is free to copy and plays on any screen with phone buzzers.
6 categories, 30 clues, Final Jeopardy. Everyone buzzes in from their phone.
Hosting opens the presenter screen with a join code for everyone's phones. Either way the board is a copy of your own. Free, no account needed.
Every clue on this board
This page is public, so anyone can read the answers — copy the board and swap a few clues before game day.
WCAG Principles
- $200
In WCAG, the G stands for this word.
What is Guidelines?
- $400
WCAG's four principles are summed up by this four-letter acronym.
What is POUR?
- $600
This principle says information must be presentable in ways users can sense, such as captions for audio.
What is perceivable?
- $800
This principle requires content to work reliably with a wide range of user agents, including assistive technologies.
What is robust?
- $1,000
WCAG is published by this standards body, founded by Tim Berners-Lee.
What is the World Wide Web Consortium?
Alt Text
- $200
Alt text is an attribute of this three-letter HTML element.
What is img?
- $400
For a purely decorative image, the alt attribute should be this, so screen readers skip it.
What is empty?
- $600
When an image has no alt attribute at all, many screen readers fall back to reading this aloud.
What is the file name?
- $800
A complex chart needs short alt text plus this kind of fuller explanation elsewhere on the page.
What is a long description?
- $1,000
WCAG success criterion 1.1.1 covers this category of content, which includes images and requires a text alternative.
What is non-text content?
Color and Contrast
- $200
WCAG says color must not be the only way to convey information, partly for people with this condition.
What is color blindness?
- $400
The most common form of color blindness makes these two colors hard to tell apart.
What are red and green?
- $600
Under WCAG AA, large text needs a contrast ratio of at least this.
What is 3 to 1?
- $800
At the stricter AAA level, normal text needs a contrast ratio of at least this.
What is 7 to 1?
- $1,000
Black text on a white background produces this, the highest possible contrast ratio.
What is 21 to 1?
Keyboard Access
- $200
Keyboard users press this key to move forward from one link or button to the next.
What is Tab?
- $400
Along with the space bar, this key activates a focused button.
What is Enter?
- $600
WCAG requires one of these to be visible, often an outline, showing which element a keyboard user is on.
What is a focus indicator?
- $800
Often the first link on a page, this lets keyboard users bypass repeated menus and jump to the main content.
What is a skip link?
- $1,000
WCAG 2.1.2 forbids this situation, where focus gets stuck in a component and can't be moved away with the keyboard.
What is a keyboard trap?
Assistive Technology
- $200
This software reads on-screen text aloud and is used by many blind people.
What is a screen reader?
- $400
This is the name of the screen reader built into iPhones and Macs.
What is VoiceOver?
- $600
This tactile device raises small pins to display text for users who read by touch.
What is a refreshable braille display?
- $800
Michael Curran and James Teh created this free, open-source screen reader for Windows.
What is NVDA?
- $1,000
This W3C specification adds roles, states and properties to HTML so assistive technology can understand custom widgets.
What is ARIA?
Accessible Documents
- $200
Link text should describe where it goes, not use these two vague words.
What is click here?
- $400
Found under the Review tab in Microsoft Office, this built-in tool flags problems like missing alt text.
What is the Accessibility Checker?
- $600
A scanned PDF made of page images needs this text-recognition process before a screen reader can read it.
What is OCR?
- $800
In a data table, marking the top row as this lets screen readers announce what each column means.
What is a header row?
- $1,000
ISO 14289 is this standard for accessible PDF files.
What is PDF/UA?
Final Jeopardy — Color Contrast
Under WCAG Level AA, normal-size body text needs at least this contrast ratio against its background.
What is 4.5 to 1?
How to run this board
This board covers the everyday practice of digital accessibility: the WCAG principles and conformance levels, writing good alt text, color and contrast, keyboard navigation, how screen readers and other assistive technology work, and making documents and emails accessible.
It is an introduction and refresher, not a substitute for an accessibility audit or formal WCAG training. Clues stick to well-established guidance, and the documents column is easy to edit for the tools your team actually uses.
Mix designers, developers, and content writers on each team. For a strong closing exercise, have each team try navigating one page of your own site by keyboard only, then talk about what they found.
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