Intent
The intent of this Success Criterion is to ensure that information and relationships
that are implied by visual or auditory formatting are preserved when the presentation
format changes. For example, the presentation format changes when the content is read
by a screen reader or when a user style sheet is substituted for the style sheet provided
by the author.
Sighted users perceive structure and relationships through various visual cues
— headings are often in a larger, bold font separated from paragraphs by blank lines;
list items are preceded by a bullet and perhaps indented; paragraphs are separated
by a blank line; items that share a common characteristic are organized into tabular
rows and columns; form fields may be positioned as groups that share text labels;
a different background color may be used to indicate that several items are related
to each other; words that have special [...]