| Title | Non-descriptive title for web page: title element with file name |
|---|---|
| Description | A document with an excerpt of Shakespeare's play Henry V with the corresponding part of Schlegel's translation of the play.
The title element is not descriptive because it contains only the file name, and there is no h1 element.
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| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-30 |
| Status | validated |
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: title
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
The title element.
This test case is intended to fail because the document does not have a descriptive title (title element contains only the file name).
Only the title is tested here, not the content of the page.
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 6, column 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#navigation-mechanisms-title.
The title of the web page contains only a file name, so it does not help people understand what is in the content.
This test case maps to failure F25: Failure of SC 2.4.2 due to the title of a Web page not identifying the contents.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 6, column 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#navigation-mechanisms-title.
The title of the web page contains only a file name, so it does not help people understand what is in the content.
Test case moved from sc2.4.5_l3_003 (13 October 2006).
This test case maps to failure F25: Failure of SC 2.4.3 due to the title of a Web unit not identifying the contents (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#F25).
Online version: sc2.4.3_l2_003.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 6, column 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#navigation-mechanisms-title.
The title of the web page contains only a file name, so it does not help people understand what is in the content.