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Normative Text

Meaningful blocks of content have a semantically appropriate label that defines their purpose.

Except when

  • A label is not needed to understand the purpose of the content within the context of use.
  • Add example(s) of labels and heading usage
Tests

This section is non-normative.

Meaningful label

Procedure

  1. Review content and identify meaningful blocks with labels.
  2. Each label correctly describes the block.

Expected results

  • #2 is true.

Label exists

Procedure

  1. Review content and identify meaningful blocks.
  2. Each block has a label that describes the block.

Expected results

  • #2 is true.

HTML heading semantics

Procedure

  1. Visually identify each meaningful blocks.
  2. Heading text is marked up using an <h?> element.

Expected results

  • #2 is true.

Tests

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Key Terms

content

information, sensory experience and interactions conveyed

label

text or other component with a text alternative that is presented to a user to identify a component within web content

A label is presented to all users whereas the name may be hidden and only exposed by assistive technology. In many (but not all) cases the name and the label are the same.

The term label is not limited to the label element in HTML.

meaningful blocks of content

Group of related content that represents a distinct topic or function, intended to be perceived as a single unit and capable of being programmatically identified and labelled.

These blocks are required to be programmatically determinable so that assistive technologies can identify the boundaries and purpose of the information.