See Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria for important information about the usage of these informative techniques and how they relate to the normative WCAG 2.0 success criteria. The Applicability section explains the scope of the technique, and the presence of techniques for a specific technology does not imply that the technology can be used in all situations to create content that meets WCAG 2.0.
HTML and XHTML
This technique relates to:
Note: This technique must be combined with other techniques to meet SC 2.4.2. See Understanding SC 2.4.2 for details.
All HTML and XHTML documents, including those in individual frames in
a frameset, have a title element in the head section that
defines in a simple phrase the purpose of the document. This helps users to orient
themselves within the site quickly without having to search for orientation information
in the body of the page.
Note that the (mandatory) title element, which only appears once in a
document, is different from the title attribute, which may be applied to
almost every HTML and XHTML element.
This example defines a document's title.
Example Code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>The World Wide Web Consortium</title>
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html> Resources are for information purposes only, no endorsement implied.
Examine the source code of the HTML or XHTML document and check that a non-empty
title element appears in the head section.
Check that the title element describes the document.
Checks 1 and 2 are true.
If this is a sufficient technique for a success criterion, failing this test procedure does not necessarily mean that the success criterion has not been satisfied in some other way, only that this technique has not been successfully implemented and can not be used to claim conformance.