Test ABBR - HTML Test Suite For WCAG 2.0

Status Of This Test

As part of the conformance test process, this test has a status of 'proposed'.

WCAG2 Guideline

Guideline: 3.1 - Make text content readable and understandable.
Success Criteria: A mechanism for finding the expanded form of acronyms and abbreviations is available.

Level 3

The WCAG2 has 3 priority levels for making Web content accessible. This test has a priority of 'Level 2'.

Techniques

The WCAG Working Group has created techniques that describe how Web content may be made accessible. The following techniques are related to this test:

Abbreviations

Prerequisite Tests

There are no prerequisite tests for this test.

Test Process

Procedure

Examine the document for abbreviations. An abbreviation is a shortened from of a word or phrase. The shortened form may consist of just the capitalized letters of the phrase.
Determine if the abbreviation needs to be marked up using the <abbr> element.

The abbreviation should be marked with the <abbr> element if it is not in common use within the language. Examples of common abbrevations in the English language which do not need to be expanded are a.m. and p.m for ante meridian (before noon) and post meridian (after noon), respectively.
This is the first occurrence of the abbreviation within the delivery unit.
This occurrence of the abbreviation occurs after a named anchor.

Expected Results

The first occurrence of an abbreviation within the delivery unit is marked with the <abbr> element. or
The first occurence of the abbreviation after each named anchor in the delivery unit is marked with the <abbr> element.

Fail Instructions

Add the <abbr> element with a title attribute that provides the entire word or phrase.

Pass Instructions

Any accessibility check may be performed after this test.

Test Files

These test files contain examples of the accessibility problem detectable by this test. They may also contain more accessibility problems than the one described in this test. Please ignore any extraneous accessibility problems in these files.

abbr-1.html Will fail the test. (first use of Abbreviation not marked.)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>WCAG Testfile - Check #ABBR - Positive</title> </head> <body> <p>The ADA took affect in July, 1992</p> </body> </html>
abbr-2.html Will pass the test. (Abbreviation marked with <abbr>.)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" /><title>WCAG Testfile - Check #ABBR - Negative</title> </head> <body><p>The <abbr title="Americans with Disabilities Act">ADA</acronym> took affect in July, 1992</p>
</body> </html>
abbr-3.html Will fail the test. (<abbr> tag not used after named anchor.)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>OAC Testfile - Check #abbr - Positive</title> </head> <body> <p>The <abbr title="Americans with Disabilities Act">ADA</acronym> took affect in July, 1992</p> ............ <p><a name="facts" id="facts"> </a>Facts about the ADA include....</p> </body> </html>
abbr-4.html Will pass the test. (<abbr> tag used after named anchor.)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>OAC Testfile - Check #abbr - Negative</title> </head> <body> <p>The <abbr title="Americans with Disabilities Act">ADA</acronym> took affect in July, 1992</p> ............ <p><a name="facts" id="facts"> </a>Facts about the <abbr title="The Americans with Disabilities Act">ADA</abbr> include....</p> </body> </html>