Web Development
Web Developer Guidelines
Visual Design Recommendations

Checkpoint 1.12 - Core

Appropriate HTML character entities are used for special characters

WCAG 1.0 Priority 2

WCAG Guideline 3. Use markup and style sheets and do so properly.

HTML provides a method of entering characters into an HTML page where the character cannot be expressed in the document's character encoding or that cannot easily be entered on a keyboard, for example a copyright symbol [ © ], trademark symbol [ ™] or some mathematical symbols like multiplication [ × ] or division [ ÷ ]. The codes for these characters are called 'character entities'.

Requirement

All special characters must be displayed using character entities.

Checking Tool

The W3C HTML Validator is able to identify any special characters that have not been represented by character entities.

Information Source

The original source of this information is located on the W3C web site  (www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html)

 

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