Web Accessibility Checker : Check Details

Element

title

Error Type

Likely

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 is not placeholder text.

Error

title contains placeholder text.

Short Description

title element content can not be any one of (case insensitive) "the title", "title", "this is the title".

How To Determine

Question	Is this `title` appropriate for the content?
PASS	`title` is appropriate for the content.
FAIL	`title` is not appropriate for the content.

Steps To Check

Procedure

1. View the text that is contained by the title element.\r\n2. Compare the title text to common placeholder values.

Expected Result

1. title is not placeholder text.

Failed Result

1. Change the title text to avoid placeholder text or confirm that the text is appropriate.

Examples

Pass Examples

title element does not contain placeholder text.

<?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 #53 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Fail Examples

title element has placehoder text 'title'.

<?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</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>