| Title | Presentational elements in order to convey information and/or relationships. |
|---|---|
| Description | CSS used to create a presentation that conveys information (without appropriate semantic markup) |
| 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: span
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: Grouping elements: the DIV and SPAN elements .
The test case is intended to fail as CSS conveys information (without appropriate semantic markup).
Check whether CSS has been used in order to convey information.
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 11, column 13: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#content-structure-separation-programmatic.
CSS conveys information (without appropriate semantic markup).
Use a semantic tag like
abbr
.