| Title | Blockquote misused for indentation |
|---|---|
| Description |
Document uses blockquote for text that
is not necessarily a quotation, to give that text visual prominence.
|
| Creator | BenToWeb (evlach@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-08-28 |
| Status | accepted QA |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML ™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: blockquote
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: Quotations: The BLOCKQUOTE and Q elements .
The test case is intended to fail because the text within
blockquote is not necessarily a quotation. The
blockquote tag is simply >being used to give the text visual
prominence.
Check if blockquote element is used for quoting.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 10, column 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#content-structure-separation-programmatic.
The
blockquote
element may mislead screen readers users into
thinking there is a quotation.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 10, column 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#content-structure-separation-programmatic.
There is a non semantic quotation