Instantaneous Client-Side Redirects Using HTTP-EQUIV="refresh"
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What Should Happen?
This page was set to redirect instantaneously. If you are reading this,
then the answer to the question, What Should Happen
is nothing.
If you are reading this content, then you are either:
- using a user agent which does not support automatic redirection;
- using a user agent which allows you to reset the refresh rate if the
refresh rate of the page being loaded is set to zero seconds; or,
- using a user agent which does not recognize the markup used to force
an automatic redirect after zero seconds.
If your user agent had supported automatic redirection, you would have
immediately been taken to a new page. If the user agent you are using
does not support automatic redirection, or automatic redirection is
disabled, it should provide you with a mechanism that enables you to a
access the page to which this page is set to automatically redirect.
If your user agent does not support automatic redirection or fails to
provide a mechanism whereby you can access the page to which this page
is set to automatically redirect, please consult the instructions
contained in the section entitled What If Nothing
Happens?
This document is part of a suite of pages designed to test the
implementation of the W3C's User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG). In particular, this page is
designed to test implementation of UAAG
checkpoint 3.6:
-
3.6 Allow
configuration so that a "client-side redirect" (i.e., one initiated by the user agent,
not the server) does not change
content except on explicit
user request. Allow the user to access the new content on demand
(e.g., by following a link or confirming a prompt). The user agent is not
required to provide these functionalities for client-side redirects that occur
instantaneously (i.e., when there is no delay before the new content is
retrieved). [Priority 2] Content only.
-
Techniques for checkpoint 3.6
This document has been constructed to test user control over user agents'
handling of automatic redirection in response to the following markup:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh"
CONTENT="0;URL=instant_redirect_test2.html">
Please send comments and observations about this test page to
<w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>. Your comments will be archived in the
mailing list's public hypertext archive. Please make your observations as specific
and detailed as possible. Be sure to include the following information
when you report your observations to the User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines Working Group:
- operating system (including version/revision number)
- assistive technology, if any (please include version number)
- user agent name and version (e.g. MSIE, version 5.00.2920.0000 update versions ;q254902)
- any special settings (i.e.
any changes you or your adaptive equipment made to your user agent's
default configuration)
- a description of what happened after you loaded the page (i.e. "Redirected to second page almost
instantly."; "Page did not automatically redirect, but user agent
notified me of the time interval and provided the URL of the second page";
"Nothing happened and I had no means of loading page 2.")
- Terminal Index
- 1) Return to the User Agent Test
Suite's Index
- 2) User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
Working Group (UAWG)
- 3) send comments and observations to w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
