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Best Practice 2.1 – Provide navigation controls for going backward (Baseline level)

Provide navigations across all screen pages of a mobile application so that it helps users with cognitive limitations, low vision and intellectual disabilities operate in a comfortable way.

Before Rectification
A sample mobile application page without a navigation button to go back to previous page.

A sample mobile application page without a navigation button to go back to previous page.

In this example, navigation buttons are not provided for users to go back among the screen pages.

After Rectification
A sample mobile application page with a navigation button to go back to previous page.

A sample mobile application page with a navigation button to go back to previous page.

Users can go back to the previous screen page easily by using the back arrow button.

W3C WCAG Reference: N/A

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