Failure of Success Criterion 2.4.2 due to the title of a Web page not identifying the contents

ID: F25

Technology: failures

Type: Failure

When to Use

All technologies.

This describes a failure condition when the Web page has a title, but the title does not identify the contents or purpose of the Web page.

Examples of text that are not titles include:

Authoring tool default titles, such as
- "Enter the title of your HTML document here,"
- "Untitled Document"
- "No Title"
- "Untitled Page"
- "New Page 1"
Filenames that are not descriptive in their own right, such as "report.html" or "spk12.html"
Empty text
Filler or placeholder text

A site generated using templates includes the same title for each page on the site. So the title cannot be used to distinguish among the pages.

Check whether the title of each Web page identifies the contents or purpose of the Web page .

If check #1 is false, then this failure condition applies and the content fails this Success Criterion.