| Title | Client-side redirect after a timeout |
|---|---|
| Description | A document with a meta element that causes an automatic redirect to another page after 4 seconds, without giving the user the opportunity to deactivate or modify the redirect / timeout. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-30 |
| 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: meta
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
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Technical specification: The meta element .
This test case is intended to fail because the content contains no mechanism to stop the automatic redirect.
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 7, column 39: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#time-limits-required-behaviors.
The page auto-redirects to another page before the user has the opportunity to read all the content.
This test case maps to failure F40: Failure of SC 2.2.1 due to using meta redirect with a time-out (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#F40).
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 7, column 39: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#time-limits-required-behaviors.
The page auto-redirects to another page before the user has the opportunity to read all the content.