| Title | Abbreviation with missing expansion (German) |
|---|---|
| Description | A short German text with an abbreviation; the abbreviation is not marked up with the abbr element, and the expansion is not provided (there is no title attribute); the abbreviation is very well known to people who know German. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-01 |
| Status | rejected QA |
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: abbr
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
Phrase elements: EM, STRONG, DFN, CODE, SAMP, KBD, VAR, CITE, ABBR, and ACRONYM
.
This test case is intended to fail because the abbreviation is not marked up and the expansion of the abbreviation is not provided. This does not necessarily cause problems for speakers of German, because the abbreviation is very well known.
Check whether an expansion of the abbreviation is provided.
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 9, column 37: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-located.
The user cannot find the expanded form of the abbreviation.
The meaning of the abbreviation PKW is very well known, so it is debatable if including the expanded form is necessary, but markup for the abbreviation is required.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 9, column 37: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-located.
The user cannot find the expanded form of the abbreviation.
The meaning of the abbreviation PKW is very well known, so it is debatable if including the expanded form is necessary, but markup for the abbreviation is required.