Using WCAG Guidelines as a basis for exploration

• WCAG is organized into 4 principles, 13 guidelines, and 86 success criteria (SC).
• While designing, principles might be too broad to be actionable and SCs can be too specific and numerous to consider all at once.
• The 13 guidelines are especially helpful in an exploratory context. They provide broad outcomes that can be used as different vectors for exploration. Once you start digging into an area, you might drop down into specific SCs to further define requirements.

Hat tip to Eric Eggert who got me thinking about this with their blog post WCAG 2: Guidelines and Guardrails.