| Title | em element used for presentational effect |
|---|---|
| Description | Document containing an em element that marks up all the content of a paragraph instead of only the part that needs to be emphasized. |
| 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: em
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: Phrase elements .
The test case is intended to fail because the em element is used for a presentation effect instead of (semantic) emphasis.
Check whether semantic markup is used correctly.
Three or more accessibility experts.
“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 8, column 59: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#content-structure-separation-programmatic.
The complete paragraph is emphasized instead of only content that needs emphasis.
This test case maps to failure F43: Failure of SC 1.3.1 due to using structural markup in a way that does not represent relationships in the content (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#F43).