| Title | Acronym with missing expansion |
|---|---|
| Description | A short text with an acronym; the acronym is not marked up with the acronym element, and the expansion of the acronym is not provided in the markup or the text. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-01 |
| 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: acronym
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
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Technical specification:
Phrase elements: EM, STRONG, DFN, CODE, SAMP, KBD, VAR, CITE, ABBR, and ACRONYM.
This test case is intended to fail because the acronym is not marked up and the expansion of the acronym is not provided.
Check whether all acronyms in the text are marked correctly.
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 34: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#meaning-located.
The user cannot find the expanded form of the acronym.
There should be an acronym element and an expansion or explanation.
This test case does not map to a WCAG 2.0 technique or failure.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 9, column 34: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-located.
The user cannot find the expanded form of the acronym.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 9, column 34: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-located.
The user cannot find the expanded form of the acronym.
There should be an acronym element.