Rule 6.2.3

Summary

This test consists in checking whether the title of each clickable area is relevant.

Business description

Criterion

6.2

Test

6.2.3

Description

pour chaque zone cliquable (balise area) ayant un titre de lien (attribut title), le contenu de cet attribut est-il pertinent ?

Level

A

Technical description

Scope

page

Decision level

Semi-Decidable

Algorithm

Selection

Set1

All the <area> tags with a "href" attribute and a "href" attribute ( area[href][alt] )

Set2

All the elements of Set1 with a not empty alt attribute and a "title" attribute

Process

Test1

For each element of Set2, we check whether the "title" attribute is not empty

For each element returning false in Test1, raise a MessageA

Test2

For each element of Set2, we check whether the "title" attribute doesn't only contain non alphanumerical characters.

For each element returning false in Test2, raise a MessageB

Test3

For each element of Set2, we check whether the "title" attribute value doesn't belong to the text link blacklist.

For each element returning false in Test3, raise a MessageB

Test4

For each element of Set2, we check whether the "title" attribute is not striclty identical to the link text.

For each element returning false in Test4, raise a MessageC

Test5

For each element of Set2, we check whether the "title" attribute contains the link text and more.

For each element returning true in Test5, raise a MessageC

For each element returning false in Test5, raise a MessageD

  • code : EmptyLinkTitle
  • status: Failed
  • parameter : link text, "title" attribute, snippet
  • present in source : yes
  • code : NotPertinentLinkTitle
  • status: Failed
  • parameter : link text, "title" attribute, snippet
  • present in source : yes
  • code : SuspectedPertinentLinkTitle
  • status: Pre-Qualified
  • parameter : link text, "title" attribute, snippet
  • present in source : yes
  • code : SuspectedNotPertinentTitleAttribute
  • status: Pre-Qualified
  • parameter : link text, "title" attribute, snippet
  • present in source : yes

Analysis

Not Applicable

The page has no clickable area (Set2 is empty)

Failed

  • At least one clickable area has an empty title attribute (Test1 returns false for at least one element)
  • At least one clickable area has title attribute only composed of non alphanumerical characters (Test2 returns false for at least one element)
  • At least one clickable area a title attribute which is blacklisted (Test3 returns false for at least one element)

Pre-qualified

In all other cases

Notes

  1. We assume here that the textual alternative of the area corresponds to the link text.

  2. Definition of not-pertinent link title attribute :

A link title attribute is regarded as not-pertinent in the following cases :

  • the "title" attribute is empty
  • the "title" attribute is blacklisted (regarding the LinkTextBlacklist nomenclature)

  • the "title" attribute only contains not alphanumerics characters

  • Due to the "Note 1" of the definition of a link title, a "title" attribute identical to the text link is seen as suspected passed.