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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:
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 element.title is not placeholder text.title text to avoid placeholder text or confirm that the text is appropriate.The following tests are related to this test and may be performed next. There is no requirement that these tests be performed:
This test contains language specific directions and is dependent upon the language of the content. It may be applied only to content written in the following languages:
| Language | Placeholder TITLE Text |
|---|---|
| eng | title |
| the title | |
| this is the title | |
| untitled document |
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 has placehoder text 'title'.)
<?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</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
title element has placehoder text 'the title'.)
<?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>the title</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
title element has placehoder text 'this is the title'.)
<?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>this is the title</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
title element has placehoder text 'untitled 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>untitled document</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
title element does not contain placeholder text.)
<?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 #53 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>