This is a draft document supplied by the WCAG Techniques Task Force. It in no way represents a WCAG Working Group consensus or agreement and is provided for informational and discussion purposes only. The accessibility test listed below should not be construed as required for conformance with the proposed WCAG2.
input element contains text.Copyright 2005, ATRC, University Of Toronto, All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply.
This test case was created by the ATRC at the University Of Toronto. It should not be construed as required for conformance with the proposed WCAG2.
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As part of the conformance test process, this test has a status of 'assigned'.
Guideline: 1.1 - Provide text alternatives for all non-text content.
Success Criteria:
3. For non-text content that is intended to create a specific sensory experience , text alternatives at least identify the non-text content with a descriptive label. How to provide text alternatives for content that creates a specific sensory experience . (Informative)
Level 1
The WCAG2 has 3 priority levels for making Web content accessible. This test has a priority of 'Level 1'.
The WCAG Working Group has created techniques that describe how Web content may be made accessible. The following techniques are related to this test:
There are no prerequisite tests for this test.
input elements.input element's associated label.Any accessibility check may be performed after this test.
These test files contain examples of the accessibility problem detectable by this test. They may also contain more accessibility problems than the one described in this test. Please ignore any extraneous accessibility problems in these files.
label is empty.)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>ATRC Testfile - Check #188 - Positive</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="http://www.test.com" method="post">
<p>
<label for="name"></label>
<input type="text" name="firstname" id="name"/>
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
label contains one printable character.)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>ATRC Testfile - Check #188 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="http://www.test.com" method="post">
<p>
<label for="name">First name: </label>
<input type="text" name="firstname" id="name"/>
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
label contains only whitespace.)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>ATRC Testfile - Check #188 - Positive</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="http://www.test.com" method="post">
<p>
<label for="name"> </label>
<input type="text" name="firstname" id="name"/>
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>