I am taking the Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) certification exam this week, and I'm really nervous about what to expect. Can anyone tell me what the exam is like? How does it compare to the CPACC exam?

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While the Body of Knowledge materials explicit state "a person can pass the exam without being a professional JavaScript programmer," I keep getting hung up on the study topics related to accessible JavaScript, AJAX, and interactive content. I have already earned the CPACC cert, and I have a decent amount of consulting experience, including providing guidance on how to make client components and widgets accessible.

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Nevertheless, most of those projects were looking at stuff already in production, and providing fixes to the dev teams like "the user can't see this alert dialog or navigate away from it. Ideally, it would be done like this <sends a code snippet with either ARIA or semantic HTML fixes>, or we could rework the UX so that they encounter this message on a refreshed page with the errors inline, depending on what works for your team."

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I don't know what to expect. If it's multiple choice, like "what role should be assigned to a simple dialog box?" I think I'll be ok. If it's more complex, like "which of the following code snippets uses the correct advisory technique for a simple dialog box," or "which JavaScript/CSS code snippets would be used to create a simple dialog box; check all that apply," I think I'll be in hot water.

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Any feedback is appreciated!