Re: Evaluating an iframe-based website

Hi Ramon--

When we evaluate sites we treat the frames as separate pages, and the iFrame wrapper has its own identity. You'll also need to review the entire page (wrapper + iFrame) together, however, so you can evaluate their interaction. 

Btw, you've already identified one failure on the site that is a common problem with frame-based websites: that the page title doesn't change to reflect page content. 

Hope this helps. 

Mike

Michael S. Elledge
Associate Director, 
Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting 
Michigan State University
Kellogg Center
219 S. Harrison Road Rm. 93
East Lansing, MI 48824

On Feb 27, 2012, at 8:33 AM, Ramón Corominas <listas@ramoncorominas.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am carrying out a WCAG 2.0 evaluation on a website that uses iframes. The website has a common part that contains the logo, main navigation and other tools, and the contents of each page are loaded in an iframe.
> 
> According to Conformance Requirement #2, it is necessary to evaluate "Full pages", that is, "a non-embedded resource obtained from a single URI using HTTP plus any other resources that are used in the rendering or intended to be rendered together with it by a user agent".
> 
> In this case, when the user navigates the website, only the iframe content is updated, so the URI remains unchanged "http://www.domain.com/". Of course, each loaded content has its own, different URI, but they are "embedded" resources that cannot be evaluated without the contents of the parent page.
> 
> So my question is: since there is only one URI, if one of these iframe-based pages fails, would this mean that the whole website fails? Or, if this is not the case, how should I specify the URIs that conform in a Conformance Declaration? How would you assess this type of website?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Ramón.
>

Received on Monday, 27 February 2012 13:56:28 UTC