RE: Proposed SC: Unique Titles - or - Unique & Updated Titles

From: Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL [mailto:ryladog@gmail.com]

This proposal is as much about uniqueness of pages titles as it is about identifying and updating page titles on a single page application (when it stops at a new logical content points, or is something like a a web mail application that has one URL but many views), and about screen titles on mobile applications.

It is about clearly identifying where you have landed.

Perhaps another term could replace unique……
[Jason] I’m wondering whether 2.4.2 (properly applied) already covers it. Consider the single page application. If it satisfies 2.4.2 after it first loads, but most of the content is changed by a script during the user’s interaction so that the title no longer describes the “topic or purpose”, what do we say about conformance? This is a much larger issue than 2.4.2, of course.
For example, consider a social media application that allows the user to upload images and to supply text alternatives. At some points during the interaction there will be images on the page that lack text alternatives, yet we don’t want to say that the page fails to conform as a result. I suspect there’s a WCAG definition somewhere that addresses this issue, but I’ll have to re-read the document and look carefully for it.


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