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DRAFT DOCUMENT

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.

HTML Test Suite for WCAG 2.0
Test 82 - All p elements are not used as headers.

W3C Editor's Draft 2005-08-11

Editors:
Chris Ridpath, ATRC, University Of Toronto
Jenae Andershonis, Microsoft Inc.

Abstract

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.

The complete list of tests may be found at http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/tests/

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Status Of This Test

As part of the conformance test process, this test has a status of 'pending'.


WCAG2 Guideline

Guideline: 1.3 - Ensure that information, functionality, and structure can be separated from presentation.
Success Criteria: 1. Navigational features can be programmatically identified .

Level 1

The WCAG2 has 3 priority levels for making Web content accessible. This test has a priority of 'Level 1'.


Techniques

The WCAG Working Group has created techniques that describe how Web content may be made accessible. The following techniques are related to this test:


Prerequisite Tests

There are no prerequisite tests for this test.


Test Process

Procedure

  1. Check the contents of all p elements in the content.
  2. Check if all the text contained by the p element is marked with presentational elements.
  3. Presentational elements include the elements b, i, u, strong, span, font, and em.
  4. If all the text is marked with a presentational element then determine if the text might be better marked as a header.

Expected Results

  1. All p elements are not used as headers.

Fail Instructions

  1. Remove the p element and replace it with the appropriate header element.

Pass Instructions

Any accessibility check may be performed after this test.


Test Files

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.

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