Web Development
Web Developer Guidelines
Visual Design Recommendations

Checkpoint 1.24 - Mobile-PDA

Every page has a short title

WCAG 1.0 Priority 1

WCAG Guideline 12. Provide context and orientation information.

Page titles identify the page to the user and help give context to the user as to where they are and what they are viewing.

Requirement

Every page has a short title

Recommendation

Many mobile browsers to not display the title of the page and, often the title is truncated if available space is limited.. The title must also be kept short to reduce the size of the page.

Checking Tool

View the title of the page in the mobile device to ensure it exists and check that the wording is descriptive of the content.

Information Source

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

 

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