| Title | Ambiguous word (homograph) without pronunciation information |
|---|---|
| Description | A web page that contains a sentence where the meaning of the word “row” cannot be determined without knowing the pronunciation. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006-08-30 |
| 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)
This test case is intended to fail because the meaning of the word “row” cannot be determined without knowing the pronunciation.
Check whether you can identify the meaning of the word “row” (without knowing the pronunciation).
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 9, column 42: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-pronunciation.
The user cannot determine whether “row” means “line, queue” or “noisy argument, quarrel” .