Web Development
Web Developer Guidelines
Visual Design Recommendations

Checkpoint 8.2 - Core

Page titles are used on every page and in the correct format

WCAG 1.0 Priority 2

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

Every web page must have a descriptive page title which is displayed in the browser title bar and provides the user with quick contextual reference of the web page within the web site.

When a user bookmarks the web page, the title will appear amongst other bookmarks in the bookmarks list.

The <title> is also used by the search engine to index and locate the web page. It is the most prominent piece of information available to users when they browse the search results page therefore it is important for the title to be able to stand on its own and clearly communicate the contents of the page to the reader.

Requirement

The standard used by the State Government of Victoria is: Page name - subsection - section - website name

A web page is not valid HTML without a <title> element.

Checking Tool

View the title of the page at the top of the browser.

Information Source

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

 

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