Level A · WCAG 2.0
2.4.2 Page Titled
Every page has a title that describes what the page is.
Automated A failure is reliably detectable.
How it fails in practice
Eight open tabs all reading “Home”. A single-page app that never updates the title on navigation, so the browser history is unusable.
How to fix it
Put the specific part first: “Checkout — payment | Shop”, not “Shop | Checkout — payment”. In an SPA, set it on every route change.
At a glance
- Level
- Level A — the minimum. Failing one of these usually makes something impossible rather than merely hard.
- Principle
- Operable
- Guideline
- 2.4 Navigable
- Added in
- WCAG 2.0
- EN 301 549
- 9.2.4.2
- Automated check
- Automated
Automated
How far an automated check gets
A tool can decide this one. A failure is a measurable fact, and finding none is real evidence rather than an absence of looking — which makes this one of the few criteria where a clean automated result means something on its own.
Fully automated. A missing or empty title is a fact, not an opinion.
Related criteria
Other criteria under the same guideline.
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