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W3C WAI: Understanding Success Criterion 2.4.5 Multiple Ways

Documents the accessibility goal of providing more than one way to locate content, supporting alternate navigation paths when a single route does not work for all users.

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Pattern Decisions This Source Supports

Pattern Supported decision Required contract Claim note
Fallback path Choose fallback path when the user needs an alternate way to finish the same task after the primary method is blocked, unsupported, unavailable, or unsuitable. The fallback path is a different route to the same user outcome or an explicitly named support handoff, not another attempt at the same failing operation. W3C documents the accessibility goal of giving users more than one way to locate content.

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