HTML and XHTML
This technique relates to:
All HTML and XHTML documents, including those in individual frames in
a frameset, have a title
element in the head
section that
defines in a simple phrase the purpose of the document. This helps users to orient
themselves within the site quickly without having to search for orientation information
in the body of the page.
Note that the (mandatory) title
element, which only appears once in a
document, is different from the title
attribute, which may be applied to
almost every HTML and XHTML element.
This example defines a document's title.
Example Code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>The World Wide Web Consortium</title>
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>
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Examine the source code of the HTML or XHTML document and check that a non-empty
title
element appears in the head
section.
Check that the title
element describes the document.
Checks 1 and 2 are true.
If this is a sufficient technique for a success criterion, failing this test procedure does not necessarily mean that the success criterion has not been satisfied in some other way, only that this technique has not been successfully implemented and can not be used to claim conformance.