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Web Accessibility Reviews

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Iframes which present user-readable content require a title or description.

WGAC 2 criterion 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value (A)
Category Multimedia
ACT Rules

WCAG 2 criterion

4.1.2 Name, Role, Value (Level A)

Tools and requirements

  • Siteimprove helps (Policy)

Test procedure

Identify all <iframe> content on the page. There is a policy set up in Siteimprove to help with this called "Find iframes."

  • If the <iframe> contains readable or viewable content (i.e., is not a container for analytics scripts that the user won't interact with), he <iframe> must have a title attribute with a short description of the contents.
    • If the content is video or audio content, the title should represent the title of the media.
    • Otherwise, the title should represent the embedded content. (The page title of whatever is embedded for example)

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