Set of web pages without a link to skip the navigation (XHTML 1 Test Suite)

Formal Metadata

Formal Metadata
Title	Set of web pages without a link to skip the navigation
Description	A set of web pages - the web site of the fictitious newspaper The Narnia Times - that has a top navigation section at the top of each page. None of these pages has a link at the top to skip the navigation and go directly to the main content area.
Creator	BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…)
Rights	Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007
Language	English
Date	2006-10-11
Status	accepted QA

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

Technical specification: The A element .

Test Data

Purpose

This test case is intended to fail because there is no mechanism to skip the navigation at the top of every page.

Test Modes

Accessibility expert.

Test Files

TCDL Data

sc2.4.1_l1_004 (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 19, column 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#navigation-mechanisms-title.

Functional Outcome

Users who rely on keyboard navigation are forced to tab through all the navigation links before getting to the content.

Technical Comment

This test case maps to technique G1: Adding a link at the top of each page that goes directly to the main content area (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#G1) but fails.

Test Case sc2.4.1_l1_004: Set of web pages without a link to skip the navigation