This is a draft document supplied by the WCAG Techniques Task Force. It in no way represents a WCAG Working Group consensus or agreement and is provided for informational and discussion purposes only. The accessibility test listed below should not be construed as required for conformance with the proposed WCAG2.
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text is not placeholder text.Copyright 2005, ATRC, University Of Toronto, All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply.
This test case was created by the ATRC at the University Of Toronto. It should not be construed as required for conformance with the proposed WCAG2.
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As part of the conformance test process, this test has a status of 'pending'.
Guideline: 1.3 - Ensure that information, functionality, and structure can be separated from presentation.
Success Criteria:
1. Navigational features can be programmatically identified .
Level 1
The WCAG2 has 3 priority levels for making Web content accessible. This test has a priority of 'Level 1'.
The WCAG Working Group has created techniques that describe how Web content may be made accessible. The following techniques are related to this test:
There are no prerequisite tests for this test.
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element and compare it to the list of placeholder values.legend
does not contain placeholder text or user has confirmed that the text is appropriate.legend
text so it describes the group of choices.Any accessibility check may be performed after this test.
These test files contain examples of the accessibility problem detectable by this test. They may also contain more accessibility problems than the one described in this test. Please ignore any extraneous accessibility problems in these files.
legend
text is placeholder text.)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #200 - Positive</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="http://example.com/donut" method="post">
<fieldset>
<legend>legend</legend>
<p>
<input type="radio" name="flavour" id="choc" value="chocolate" checked="checked" />
<label for="choc">Chocolate</label><br/>
<input type="radio" name="flavour" id="cream" value="cream"/>
<label for="cream">Cream Filled</label><br/>
<input type="radio" name="flavour" id="honey" value="honey"/>
<label for="honey">Honey Glazed</label>
</p>
</fieldset>
<p><input type="submit" value="Purchase Donut"/></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
legend
text describes the group of choices.)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #200 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="http://example.com/donut" method="post">
<fieldset>
<legend>Donut Type</legend>
<p>
<input type="radio" name="flavour" id="choc" value="chocolate" checked="checked" />
<label for="choc">Chocolate</label><br/>
<input type="radio" name="flavour" id="cream" value="cream"/>
<label for="cream">Cream Filled</label><br/>
<input type="radio" name="flavour" id="honey" value="honey"/>
<label for="honey">Honey Glazed</label>
</p>
</fieldset>
<p><input type="submit" value="Purchase Donut"/></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>