Summary
This Success Criterion requires that color isn’t the only visual means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element. Basically, it ensures that users with color blindness or other vision impairments can understand web content the same way others do.
Lyrics
VERSE 1:
In the digital mandal where colors dance and play
Some see red as danger, others see just gray
One point four point one, the guideline shows the way
Don’t let hues alone convey what you need to say
Like a raga needs both sur and taal to shine
Your message needs more than color’s single line
Add shapes and text, let icons be your friend
So every user understands what you intend
CHORUS:
Beyond the colors, beyond the rainbow’s art
Use text and symbols, reach every beating heart
When red means “required” add a star beside
One point four point one, let no one be denied
Color’s just one note in accessibility’s song
With multiple cues, everyone belongs
VERSE 2:
Think of forms with fields that must be filled
Not just red for errors, but with text that’s clearly billed
Some see monochrome, some can’t tell green from red
Three to one contrast helps, but more is needed instead
Like a tabla speaks through rhythm, not just tone
Your design must speak through channels more than one
Numbers next to colors in your charts and graphs
Multiple pathways lead to understanding’s path
CHORUS:
Beyond the colors, beyond the rainbow’s art
Use text and symbols, reach every beating heart
When red means “required” add a star beside
One point four point one, let no one be denied
Color’s just one note in accessibility’s song
With multiple cues, everyone belongs
BRIDGE/OUTRO:****
In this digital age where eight percent can’t see
The difference between your red and green
Let your design be like a full orchestra
Where if one instrument fails, the melody’s still clean
One point four point one reminds us all to care
That information flows through channels everywhere
Sound Influences
hindustani classical music, sitar, tabla, tanpura drone, alap section, jor section, jhala section, gat section, microtonal ornamentations, meend (gliding notes), gamak (oscillations), taans (fast melodic runs), tihai (rhythmic cadences), raga elaboration, tala cycles, improvisation, meditative passages, complex rhythmic patterns, sympathetic strings, jawari (buzzing timbre), bols (tabla syllables), sam (rhythmic resolution point)
Version Number: 1.2