Verified Answer Marker

A visible indicator on a forum or Q&A platform signalling that a particular reply has been confirmed as correct or useful — for example, Stack Overflow's green tick, Apple Discussion Forums' top-ranked reply, or moderator-endorsed 'solution' badges. Verified markers reduce the cost of triaging long threads and are particularly valuable for blind users, for whom verifying each candidate step through a screen reader is disproportionately expensive. Semantically accessible markers (announced by screen readers) are recommended for accessibility-focused forums.