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title
attribute of all source a
(anchor) elements describes the link destination.Copyright 2005, ATRC, University Of Toronto, All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply.
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The following tests must be run before running this test. If any of the prerequisite tests fail then this test is invalid and should not be run.
title
attribute value of each source a
(anchor) element to determine if it describes the link destination.a
(anchor) element must contain an href
attribute.title
attribute of each source a
(anchor) element describes the link destination.title
attribute value so it describes the link destination.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.
title
attribute value on source anchor does not describe the link destination.)
<?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>Testfile - Check #191 - Positive</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>We have more <a href="dogs.html" title="cats information">information about dogs</a> on our site.</p>
</body>
</html>
title
attribute value on source anchor describes the link destination.)
<?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>Testfile - Check #191 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>We have information about <a href="dogs.html" title="dogs information">dogs</a> on our site.</p>
</body>
</html>