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Level AAAWCAG 2.0WCAG 2.1WCAG 2.2

2.2.5
Re-authenticating

What the standard says

When an authenticated session expires, the user can continue the activity without loss of data after re-authenticating.

Where this one sits

This is a Level AAA criterion. Level AAA is not required by the European Accessibility Act or EN 301 549, and W3C itself does not recommend it as a site-wide target — so we have kept our commentary to the A and AA set rather than padding out pages we cannot improve on.

How A11ySignal checks it

manual

No automated rule can judge this criterion, and we will not pretend otherwise. A clean scan does not mean 2.2.5 passes — it means nothing we can measure fails. This one needs a person.

Also under 2.2 Enough Time