Test Case xhtml1_wcag2_20050630_2.4_l2_sc3_003: Non-descriptive title for web page: empty title element

Formal Metadata

Formal Metadata
Title	Non-descriptive title for web page: empty title element
Description	A document with an excerpt of Shakespeare's play Henry V with the corresponding part of Schlegel's translation of the play. The `title` element is not descriptive because it is empty, and there is no `h1` element.
Creator	BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…)
Rights	Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007
Language	English
Date	2005-09-30
Status	draft

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

Technical specification: The title element .

Test Data

Purpose

This test case is intended to fail because the document does not have a descriptive title (title element does not contain any text). Only the title is tested here, not the content of the page.

Test Modes

Accessibility expert.

Test Files

Test file.

TCDL Data

xhtml1_wcag2_20050630_2.4_l2_sc3_003 (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 at line 6, column 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#navigation-mechanisms-title.

Functional Outcome

The title of the web page is missing, so it does not help people understand what is in the content.