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UAAG 1.0 Requirement

Checkpoint 10.5 Provide link information (Priority 3 )
Provision 1 : To help the user decide whether to traverse a link in content, make available the following information about it: link element content, link title, whether the link is internal to the resource (e.g., the link is to a target in the same Web page), whether the user has traversed the link recently, and information about the type, size, and natural language of linked Web resources.

Test 1 :

Procedure

  1. Query the user agent to provide information about the following test links as outlined in provision one of this checkpoint.

Run test

Test Link 1

Test Link 2

Test Link 3

Test Link 4

Internal Link Anchor 1
Internal Link Anchor 2

Expected results

  1. The user agent should make available the link information as outlined in provision 1 of this checkpoint including: link element content, link title, whether the link is internal to the resource (e.g., the link is to a target in the same Web page), whether the user has traversed the link recently, and information about the type, size, and natural language of linked Web resources.
  2. (Note: The user agent is not required to compute or make available information that requires retrieval of linked Web resources.)

Source code

<p>
  <a href="../action/return.html" title="Test external link 1" hreflang="en" type="text/html" shape="rect" href="../action/return.html" title="Test external link 2" hreflang="en" type="text/html" shape="rect" href="#internal1" title="Test internal link 1" hreflang="en" type="text/html" shape="rect" href="#internal2" title="Test internal link 2" hreflang="en" type="text/html" shape="rect" name="internal1" shape="rect" name="internal2" shape="rect">Test Link 1</a>
</p>
<p>
  <a href="../action/return.html" title="Test external link 2" hreflang="en" type="text/html" shape="rect" href="#internal1" title="Test internal link 1" hreflang="en" type="text/html" shape="rect" href="#internal2" title="Test internal link 2" hreflang="en" type="text/html" shape="rect" name="internal1" shape="rect" name="internal2" shape="rect">Test Link 2</a>
</p>
<p>
  <a href="#internal1" title="Test internal link 1" hreflang="en" type="text/html" shape="rect" href="#internal2" title="Test internal link 2" hreflang="en" type="text/html" shape="rect" name="internal1" shape="rect" name="internal2" shape="rect">Test Link 3</a>
</p>
<p>
  <a href="#internal2" title="Test internal link 2" hreflang="en" type="text/html" shape="rect" name="internal1" shape="rect" name="internal2" shape="rect">Test Link 4</a>
</p>
<h5>
  <a name="internal1" shape="rect" name="internal2" shape="rect">Internal Link Anchor 1</a>
</h5>
<h5>
  <a name="internal2" shape="rect">Internal Link Anchor 2</a>
</h5>

References

  1. HTML 4.01 specification for A

About this test suite

This test is part of a test suite for the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 . This work is conducted by the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group , which is part of W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) . Please send comments on this test to w3c-wai-ua@w3.org ( public archive ).

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Last modified: $Date: 2003/04/02 23:46:53 $ by $Author: jongund $

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