developing Core requirement

Page/view title available

Group: layout • Guideline: user-orientation

Summary in Plain English

Each page or view has a title describing its name, topic or purpose - unless the technology has no way to carry one.

The title is the first thing a screen reader announces and how users tell tabs, windows and history entries apart.

Quoted from the provision's informative document, informative/guidelines/layout/user-orientation/page-view-title-available.md. It is the group's own procedure, not an editorial testing guide.

Ensure the page/view title is meaningful

Procedure

For each page/view:

Examine the source code of the HTML document and check that the first title element is not-empty.
Check that the title element describes the document.

Expected results

Verify that the page/view has no available mechanism to define a title

Procedure

For each page/view where no title element is present:

Determine whether the current page/view allows setting the HTML document title element.
If the page/view is rendered within the current document context (for example, modal dialog or popup) and does not provide a mechanism to set a document-level title, the exception applies.

Expected results

The page/view has a title that describes its name, topic, or purpose.


:::except-when
- The technology has no way to include a title.
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