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2.4.1  Page Titles (A)

All web pages must have titles that describe their topic or purpose to help people quickly find specific content and orient themselves within a website. This is made easier when the web page has a title; the title identifies the contents or purpose of the Web page and distinguishes it from other pages on the site.

 Example:

<head>
	<title>Home - Digital Accessibility Centre (DAC)</title>
</head>

Tools required

  • Developer tools (F12)

How to test

  1. Open the web page to be tested.
  2. Find the page’s title in the browser title bar at the top of the browser window. If the browser title bar does not display the page’s full title, open the browser’s Developer tools (F12) or use the browser’s View Source feature and find the title element, which is located within the page’s head element near the top of the HTML markup.
  3. Check that the title of the page being tested describes the page’s purpose or topic. Compare the page’s title with that from a number of other pages in the same section of the website, and check that it is unique and serves to differentiate the page from the other pages on the site.

Potential access issues

  • There is no title in the HTML source code.
  • The HTML title is empty.
  • The page’s title does not describe the purpose or topic of the page.
  • The page’s title is not meaningful, e.g. “report.html”.
  • The page’s title is placeholder text, e.g. “Untitled Page”.
  • The page’s title is not unique: some other pages have the same title.

Titled Pages was posted on 12/09/2023 @ 17:19