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Accessibility: Pages should have titles to describe purpose #357

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aduth opened this issue Jul 1, 2020 · 1 comment
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Accessibility: Pages should have titles to describe purpose #357

aduth opened this issue Jul 1, 2020 · 1 comment
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aduth commented Jul 1, 2020

Every page on the Centers of Excellence website currently uses the same title "GSA - IT Modernization Centers of Excellence". Ideally, the page should be titled as describing the content or topic of the individual page. This allows a user to identify the purpose of the web page they are visiting.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Navigate to https://coe.gsa.gov/about/team.html
  2. Observe page title

Expected: Page title should include subject of the page ("Our Team")
Actual: Page title is assigned constant value "GSA - IT Modernization Centers of Excellence"

WCAG Success Criteria (A): 2.4.2: Page Titled

Relevant technique: General G88: Providing descriptive titles for Web pages

Descriptive titles help users find content, orient themselves within it, and navigate through it. A descriptive title allows a user to easily identify what Web page they are using and to tell when the Web page has changed. The title can be used to identify the Web page without requiring users to read or interpret page content. Users can more quickly identify the content they need when accurate, descriptive titles appear in site maps or lists of search results. When descriptive titles are used within link text, they help users navigate more precisely to the content they are interested in.

The title of each Web page should: [...] Identify the subject of the Web page

Relevant code:

<title>GSA - IT Modernization Centers of Excellence</title>

@daniellegallant daniellegallant self-assigned this Jul 13, 2020
@iamjolly iamjolly self-assigned this Jul 23, 2020
iamjolly added a commit that referenced this issue Jul 24, 2020
partly addresses #357 with updates needed to pages sitewide to use implement title: within the frontmatter for every page where it is currently missing
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@daniellegallant - This one is ready for your efforts within the markdown page files. In the top part of each file, there will be a front-matter section denoted by dashes at the beginning and end of the front-matter section. You should now be able to add:

title: Something Short and Descriptive for Title of the Page

for any pages on the site. You can also edit existing page titles. This will then allow every page to have a unique, correct page title which will help with accessibility and SEO.

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