Re: Question about page title and @lang on pages within iframes

On 8/21/2014 9:23 AM, Alastair Campbell wrote:
>
> From what I understand, browsers treat an iframe as a separate page 
> for security reasons.
>
Doesn't this depend if the iframe is from the same origin or not? I know 
I can certainly create cross iframe javascript when the pages are being 
served from the same origin.
>
> Based on that, I don’t think relying on inheritance is sufficient for 
> styles, scripts or language.
>
The user agent still has access to the inheritance information for this 
so I'm not sure why not specifying the language of an iframe should 
cause any AT difficulty.
>
> However, the iframe itself can have a title (attribute), so I don’t 
> think another title (element) in the iframe source page will help 
> particularly.
>
Agree - I have no idea how a title element in an iframe would ever get 
communicated to a user.

I've always flagged missing TITLE elements and language attributes as 
potential violations on visible IFRAME elements but I think I have been 
doing this as I believe WCAG is unclear on this rather than based on any 
real fundamental issues which would be observed based on this.

If this could be cleared up I believe I could eliminate developers from 
doing some unnecessary work and allow them to concentrate on more real 
issues.

Regards,
James

> -Alastair
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Jonathan Avila 
> <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com <mailto:jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com>> wrote:
>
> If an HTML page can only be accessed via an iframe within another 
> document and is in the same language as the parent document – is the 
> HTML page in the iframe subject to the success criteria for page 
> titles and document language?  Are pages allowed to meet the SC via 
> inherited page titles and languages.  Any thoughts?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jonathan
>

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