Web Accessibility Checker : Check Details

Element

title

Error Type

Known

Guidelines

BITV 1.0 (Level 2)
Level 1
13.2 Provide metadata to add semantic information to pages and sites.
WCAG 1.0 (Level AA)
Priority 2
13.2 Provide metadata to add semantic information to pages and sites.
WCAG 1.0 (Level AAA)
Priority 2
13.2 Provide metadata to add semantic information to pages and sites.
WCAG 2.0 (Level A)
2.4 Navigable: Provide ways to help users navigate, find content, and determine where they are.
Success Criteria 2.4.2 Page Titled (A)
WCAG 2.0 (Level AA)
2.4 Navigable: Provide ways to help users navigate, find content, and determine where they are.
Success Criteria 2.4.2 Page Titled (A)
WCAG 2.0 (Level AAA)
2.4 Navigable: Provide ways to help users navigate, find content, and determine where they are.
Success Criteria 2.4.2 Page Titled (A)

Requirement

title contains text.

Error

title element is empty.

Short Description

title element content cannot be empty or whitespace.

How To Repair

Add text to the title element.

Steps To Check

Procedure

1. Check the contents of the title element.
2. Note: For this test the term "contains text" excludes whitespace.
The title element must contain at least one non-whitespace character.

Expected Result

1. title contains text.

Failed Result

1. Add text to the title element.

Examples

Pass Examples

title element has content.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #51 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Fail Examples

title element is empty.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>