| Title | Change of user agent when a link is hovered over (onmouseover) |
|---|---|
| Description | Document containing a link; when the user hovers over the link an MP3 file is loaded with an external player. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (johannes.koch@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-08-29 |
| 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: a
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/interact/scripts.html#adef-onmouseover.
Standard ECMA-262 : ECMAScript Language Specification, 3rd edition (December 1999)
The test is intended to fail because the change of user agent was not expected.
The browser must be JavaScript-enabled.
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 102: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#consistent-behavior-no-extreme-changes-context.
When the user hovers over the link, an audio file starts playing.
The actual behaviour may depend on the user agent. On Windows XP, the following behaviour was observed. In Internet Explorer, the audio file was loaded in an instance of Windows Media Player. In Firefox 2.0 and Seamonkey 1.1, audio file was played by QuickTime (in the same tab as the referencing file). In Opera 9.0, the audio file started playing in the background, with no audio plugin being visible.
The test case passes the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#consistent-behavior-no-extreme-changes-context.
The user initiated the change of context.
The user hovered over the link, which initiated a change of user agent.