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Version: WCAG 2.0 and up
Number: 2.4.2
Level: A
Applicability:
  • Document Title
Requirement:

Web pages have titles that describe topic or purpose.

Guidance:
Techniques:

Purpose

The purpose of this success criterion is to ensure that users can easily orient themselves to their location within a digital publication (e.g., when following a link from an index).

How to Meet

Authors need to ensure that each document in the publication has a title element that describes the content of the document.

Additional Information

The following knowledge base pages provide more information about how to address this success criterion for publishing content: