Name, role and value of emulated user interface control: checkbox [new] (XHTML 1 Test Suite)

Formal Metadata

Formal Metadata
Title	Name, role and value of emulated user interface control: checkbox [new]
Description	A document with a form in which a checkbox is emulated by means of a `span` element, an `onclick` event handler and Javacript. Clicking the checkbox or its (emulated) label toggles the checkbox on or off.
Creator	BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…)
Rights	Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007
Language	English
Date	2007-08-24
Status	validated

Technologies and Features

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: input (namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml) .

Technical specification: The input element .

Feature: title (namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml) .

Technical specification: The title attribute .

Standard ECMA-262: ECMAScript Language Specification

Cascading Style Sheets, level 2: CSS2 Specification

Test Data

Purpose

The test case is intended to fail because the emulated checkbox cannot be recognised as such by assistive technology. Only the emulation issue is tested here, not keyboard accessibility.

Test Modes

Accessibility expert.

Test Files

Test file.

TCDL Data

sc4.1.2_l1_208 (XML).

Rules

“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.

Primary Rules

The test case fails the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#ensure-compat-rsv.

Functional Outcome

Users of assistive technology cannot find the ‘checkbox’.

Technical Comment

This test case maps to failure F59: Failure of SC 4.1.2 due to using script to make div or span a user interface control in HTML.

Test Case sc4.1.2_l1_208: Name, role and value of emulated user interface control: checkbox [new]