Web Development
Web Developer Guidelines
Visual Design Recommendations

Checkpoint 8.1 - Core

The complete, mandated metadata is included

WCAG 1.0 Priority 2

WCAG Guideline 13. Provide clear navigation mechanisms.

Good quality metadata enhances usability of search facilities by providing useful and accurate keywords and descriptions of content. The descriptions and summaries of page contents displayed in search results are often drawn from metadata which has been inserted into the HTML of the web pages.

Without metadata, the website information is more difficult to share with users and other computers through data exchange facilities. It is difficult to archive and retrieve content if standard metadata schemes are not followed.

The Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Unit (KSCU) has developed metadata standards that are based on the qualified Dublin Core Standard and are compliant with the Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) standards and Education Network Australia's (EdNA) metadata standards to add semantic information to pages and sites.

Requirement

The metadata required in all web pages must conform to KSCU Metadata specifications.

The following metadata elements must be included in each page and populated accordingly.

      <meta name="keywords" content="">
      <meta name="Description" content="">
      <meta name="DC.Subject" content="">
      <meta name="DC.Description" content="">
      <meta name="DC.Title" content="">
      <meta name="DC.Coverage.audience" content="">
      <meta name="DC.Creator.nameCorporate" content="State of Victoria,
         Department of Education &amp; Training">
      <meta name="DC.Identifier" scheme="URI" content="">
      <meta name="DC.Date.created" scheme="W3CDTF" content="2005-02-25">
      <meta name="DC.Type" content="">
      <meta name="DC.Format" scheme="IMT" content="text/html">
      <meta name="DC.Language" scheme="RFC1766" content="en-AU">
      <meta name="DC.Publisher.nameCorporate" content="State of Victoria,
         Department of Education &amp; Training">
      <meta name="DC.Contributor.nameCorporate" content="State of Victoria,
         Department of Education &amp; Training">
      <meta name="DC.Rights" scheme="URI" content="">

Checking Tool

  • Internet Explorer - AIS toolbar: Doc Info > Metadata Information [new window]
  • Firefox - Web Developer's Toolbar: Information > View Meta Tag Information
  • WebCMS - View Metadata of the document in the WebCMS

Information Source

The original source of this information is located on the W3C web site  (www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-use-metadata)

 

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