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.
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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 'accepted'.
Guideline: 2.4 - Provide mechanisms to help users find content, orient themselves within it, and navigate through it.
Success Criteria:
3. Delivery units have descriptive titles How to provide descriptive titles . (Informative)
Level 3
The WCAG2 has 3 priority levels for making Web content accessible. This test has a priority of 'Level 3'.
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.
title element.title contains text.title element.The following tests are related to this test and may be performed next. There is no requirement that these tests be performed:
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 element 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></title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
title element 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> </title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
title element has content.)
<?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 #51 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>