Document title is blank Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

Document title must not be blank.

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For HTML pages change the title element. For Office documents and PDF documents produced from Office, fill in the Title in Document Properties before saving as PDF.

Applicable standards

• ACT Rules 2779a5
• Matterhorn 1.02 06-004
• WCAG 2.0 F25 (Success Criteria: 2.4.2 level A)
• WCAG 2.1 F25 (Success Criteria: 2.4.2 level A)
• Section 508 (2017) F25 (Success Criteria: 2.4.2 level A)

Note: Section 508 Refresh (2017) checkpoints are equivalent to WCAG 2.0 level A and level AA checkpoints.

Change history

• 5.36 Jan 2020 Only check first title element in DOM order. Changed rule ID from AccWcag1-13.2.2 to AccPageBlankTitle.
• 5.22 Jul 2016 Fixed false negative.
• 5.3 Sep 2013 Fixed false negative.
• 4.4 Aug 2011 Don’t complain about missing title if page could not be retrieved due to network or server error.
• 4.0 Jun 2010 Look in RDF metadata for PDF title as well as legacy DocInfo section.
• 4.0 Jun 2010 Check for titles in PDFs.
• 3.0 Dec 2008 Now triggers WCAG2 F25.
• 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in PDF and HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: AccPageBlankTitle