Rule 11.7.1

Summary

This test consists in checking whether each legend associated with a fieldset is relevant

Business description

Criterion

11.7

Test

11.7.1

Description

Dans chaque formulaire, chaque légende (balise legend) associée à un groupement de champs de formulaire (balise fieldset) est-elle pertinente ?

Level

A

Technical description

Scope

page

Decision level

Semi-decidable

Algorithm

Selection

Set1

All the <legend> tags with a <fieldset> ancestor (fieldset legend)

Process

Test1

For each occurence of the Set1, check whether the textual content is not relevant (see Notes about relevancy detection).

For each occurence of true-result of Test1, raise a MessageA.

For each occurence of false-result of Test1, raise a MessageB.

MessageA : Not pertinent legend
  • code : NotPertinentLegend
  • status: Failed
  • parameter : text, tag name
  • present in source : yes
MessageB : Check Legend Pertinence
  • code : CheckLegendPertinence
  • status: Pre-Qualified
  • parameter : text, tag name
  • present in source : yes

Analysis

Not Applicable

The page has no <legend> tag with a <fieldset> ancestor (Set1 is empty)

Failed

At least one <legend> is not relevant (Test1 returns true for at least one element)

Pre-qualified

All the <legend> tags are not seen as not relevant (Test1 returns true for all elements of Set1)

Notes

Definition of not-pertinent legend :

A <legend> is seen as not-pertinent in the following cases :

  • the content of the tag is empty
  • the content of the tag only contains non alphanumerics characters