| Title | Client-side redirect after a timeout |
|---|---|
| Description | A document with a meta element causes an automatical redirect to another page after 4 seconds, without giving the user the opportunity to deactivate or modify the redirect / timeout. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-30 |
| Status | accepted for end user evaluation |
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: meta
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
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Technical specification: The meta element .
This test case is intended to fail because the content contains no mechanism to to stop the automatic redirect.
End user.
“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 7, column 39: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#time-limits-required-behaviors.
The page auto-recirects to another page before the user has the opportunity to read all the content..