Page title
Impact: Strong to major
Users mainly impacted: Blind, visually impaired, motor, mental and cognitive disabilities.
RGAA criteria: Criterion 8.5 - Criterion 8.6
Explanation
Page titles are the first information available to users and serve as the basis for browsers to produce a navigation history or list of open tabs.
In their absence or irrelevance, the blind, the severely visually impaired and the people with mental or cognitive disabilities will have great difficulty finding a page in the navigation history or in the list of open tabs.
When pages are part of a process, people who are blind or severely visually impaired who use a screen reader may not understand the process.
Finally, when the page is bookmarked, the absence of a title or lack of relevance will force these users to systematically modify the proposed title, which can make the use of a site complex, especially for people with motor disabilities.
The page title is in most cases only updated after a page reload and not when there are client-side changes. Client side errors are handled directly in JS.
Consider making the page title relevant in the case of a process.
When there is a pagination
Imagine that we have 28 results in total with 10 results displayed per page and we are on the second page.
<title>News, Page 2 to 3, Name of my website</title>
When filtering in a search or list view
When it has a search or a filtering by keyword and categories. In this case, indicate the number of results, the keywords searched and why not a filtering category. In case there is more than one category, indicate the number of categories activated only.
<title>Results of the news for the terms city, 2 filters activated, 7 results, Page 1 to 2, Name of my website</title>
When there is a server side error in a form
<title>5 Error(s), Contact, Name of my website</title>
When there is a process in a procedure or a form
<title>Verify your information, Contact, Name of the website</title>
<title>Successful sending, Contact, Name of the website</title>
When there are no results to a search or when filtering a list view.
<title>Search results for the term(s) city, No results, Name of the website</title>