| Title | Empty title for a frame in a frameset |
|---|---|
| Description | A document with a frameset; the frameset has a navigation frame at the left and a content frame at the right. Activating a link in the navigation frame causes the corresponding document to be loaded in the content frame. The title attributes on the frame elements are empty. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-30 |
| Status | draft |
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: frameset
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
The frameset element
.
Feature: frame
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
The frame element
.
Feature: title
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
The title attribute
.
This test case is intended to fail because the title attributes on the frame elements are not descriptive but empty. Only the frameset document is tested here, not the documents that are loaded into the frames.
Accessibility expert.
“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 36, column 96: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#navigation-mechanisms-title.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 37, column 94: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#navigation-mechanisms-title.
The titles of the two frames are empty and therefore do not help people understand what type of content will be loaded in these frames.