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.
frame is accessible content.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.
The complete list of tests may be found at http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/tests/
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As part of the conformance test process, this test has a status of 'pending'.
Guideline: 1.1 - Provide text alternatives for all non-text content.
Success Criteria:
text-equiv-explicit-assoc
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.
src attribute of each frame element in the content.src attribute.frame is accessible content.frame so it is accessible.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.
frame content not accessible - just image)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.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>OAC Testfile - Check #33 - Positive</title>
</head>
<frameset>
<frame src="rex.jpg" title="a demo frame with poor content"/>
</frameset>
</html>
frame content accessible - image within HTML page)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.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>OAC Testfile - Check #33 - Negative</title>
</head>
<frameset>
<frame src="rex.html" title="a frame with accessible content"/>
</frameset>
<!--
The file 'rex.html' contains the HTML code:
<?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>OAC Testfile - Check #33 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><img src="rex.jpg" alt="Photo of a brown and black cat named Rex."/></p>
</body>
</html>
-->
</html>