Document title missing Accessibility Checkpoint
Description
Document must have a title.
Help
For HTML pages add a title
element. For Office documents and PDF documents produced from Office, fill in the Title in Document Properties before saving as PDF.
Applicable standards
- ACT Rules 2779a5
- Matterhorn 1.02 06-003
- WCAG 2.0 (Success Criteria: 2.4.2 level A)
- WCAG 2.1 (Success Criteria: 2.4.2 level A)
- WCAG 2.2 (Success Criteria: 2.4.2 level A)
- Section 508 (2017) (Success Criteria: 2.4.2 level A)
Note: Section 508 Refresh (2017) checkpoints are equivalent to WCAG 2.0 level A and level AA checkpoints.
Change history
- 5.36 Jan 2020 Changed rule ID from AccWcag1-13.2.1 to AccPageNoTitle.
- 5.22 Jul 2016 Fixed false negative.
- 4.0 Jun 2010 Look in RDF metadata for PDF title as well as legacy
DocInfo
section. - 4.0 Jun 2010 Check for titles in PDFs and Office documents.
- 3.5 Dec 2009 Don’t warn about missing title if document corrupt.
- 3.3 Jun 2009 Now triggers WCAG 2 2.4.2.
- 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.
This page describes a web site issue detected in PDF and HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.
Rule ID: AccPageNoTitle