Skip to content

HTML page has non-empty title [2779a5]: Added HTML specs reference #2203

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 2 commits into from
Aug 1, 2024
Merged

HTML page has non-empty title [2779a5]: Added HTML specs reference #2203

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
deab5b4
Update non-empty title HTML reference
giacomo-petri Jul 22, 2024
7f0d055
Merge branch 'develop' into giacomo-petri-update-non-empty-title-html…
carlosapaduarte Aug 1, 2024
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion _rules/html-page-non-empty-title-2779a5.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ For each target element, the first [HTML][] `title` element that is a [descendan

## Assumptions

This rule assumes that [Success Criterion 2.4.2 Page Titled](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#page-titled) does not require that a document only has one `title` element, nor that it is a child of the `head` element of a document. While this is invalid in HTML, the HTML 5.2 specification describes what should happen in case of multiple titles, and titles outside the `head` element. Because of this, neither of these validation issues causes a conformance problem for WCAG. Regardless of whether this is required by 2.4.2 Page Titled, failing this rule means the success criterion is not satisfied.
This rule assumes that [Success Criterion 2.4.2 Page Titled](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#page-titled) does not require that a document only has one `title` element, nor that it is a child of the `head` element of a document. While this is invalid in HTML, the [HTML specification](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#the-title-element-2) describes what should happen in case of multiple titles, and titles outside the `head` element. Because of this, neither of these validation issues causes a conformance problem for WCAG. Regardless of whether this is required by 2.4.2 Page Titled, failing this rule means the success criterion is not satisfied.

This rule assumes that the title of the page is not provided by a higher-level protocol. For example, the subject field of an email authored in HTML can provide a title without requiring a `title` element. In such a case, this rule will fail while [Success Criterion 2.4.2 Page Titled](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#page-titled) may still be satisfied.

Expand Down
Loading