RGAA 3.0 - Rule 9.1.4

Summary

This test consists in checking whether each heading of the page is relevant

Business description

Criterion

9.1

Test

9.1.4

Description

On each Web page, is each heading (h1 to h6 tag or a tag with an ARIA role=“heading” associated to an aria-level property) relevant?

Level

A

Technical description

Scope

Page

Decision level

Semi-Decidable

Algorithm

Selection

Set1

All the <Hx> tags where x is comprise between 1 and 6 and all the tags with a "role" attribute equals to “heading” and an "aria-level" attribute (h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, [role=heading][aria-level])

Process

 Test1

For each element of Set1, we check whether the content of the tag is pertinent (see Notes about relevancy detection).

For each element returning false in Test1, raise a MessageA. Raise a MessageB instead.

MessageA : Not pertinent heading
  • code : NotPertinentHeading
  • status: Failed
  • parameter : tag text, tag name, snippet
  • present in source : yes
MessageB : Check heading pertinence
  • code : CheckHeadingPertinence
  • status: Pre-Qualified
  • parameter : tag text, tag name, snippet
  • present in source : yes

Analysis

Not Applicable

  • The page has no tag
  • The page has no tag with heading semantic (role=“heading” and aria-level=“Integer”)

(Set1 is empty)

Failed

At least one element of Set1 has an empty content or a content only composed of non alphanumerical characters (Test1 returns false for at least one element)

Pre-Qualified

In all other cases

Notes

Definition of not-pertinent legend :

A heading is seen as not-pertinent in the following cases :

  • the content of the tag is empty
  • the content of the tag only contains non alphanumerics characters

TestCases

TestCases files for rule 9.1.4