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.
frame
titles
do not contain 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: 3.1 - Make text content readable and understandable.
Success Criteria:
meaning-read-alone
Level 3
The WCAG2 has 3 priority levels for making Web content accessible. This test has a priority of 'Level 3'.
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.
frame
element and compare its title
attribute value to the list of placeholder values.frame
title
placeholder values are: 'title', 'the title' and 'frame title'.frame
titles
do not contain placeholder text or the user has confirmed that the title
text is appropriate.frame
title
text so it is not placeholder text or confirm that the text identifies the purpose or function of the frame
.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.
frame
title
is placeholder text.)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.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 #202 - Positive</title>
</head>
<frameset >
<frame src="birds.html" title="frame title" />
</frameset>
</html>
frame
title
is not placeholder text.)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.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 #202 - Negative</title>
</head>
<frameset >
<frame src="birds.html" title="main content" />
</frameset>
</html>