| Title | Auto-refreshing content without a mechanism to turn it off |
|---|---|
| Description | A document that refreshes every 5 seconds to display a new "random" quote. The page refreshes automatically, without giving the user the opportunity to deactivate or modify the timeout. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-29 |
| Status | accepted for end user evaluation |
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 does not provide a mechanism to turn off the automatic refresh.
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 41: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#time-limits-required-behaviors.
The page auto-refreshes periodically before the user has the opportunity to read all the content.
The line and column in the location refer to the content attribute in the HTML output, not in the JSP source code!
This test case maps to failure F41: Failure of SC 2.2.1, 2.2.5, and 3.2.5 due to using meta refresh with a time-out.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 7, column 41: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#time-limits-required-behaviors.
The page auto-refreshes periodically before the user has the opportunity to read all the content.
The line and column in the location refer to the content attribute in the HTML output, not in the JSP source code!
Online version: sc2.2.1_l1_001.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 7, column 41: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#time-limits-required-behaviors.
The page auto-refreshes periodically before the user has the opportunity to read all the content.
The line and column in the location refer to the content attribute in the HTML output, not in the JSP source code!