Bellevue College

Web Publishing Guide

Standards: Rules of the Road

Web Standards are the rules of the road for college website managers and application developers.

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Requirement 10

If Using Frames, Title All Frames Within the Page Frameset

 

All documents within the frameset of your Web page should be titled using the ‘TITLE’ attribute to facilitate navigation with screen readers and text-based browsers.
(Reference: W3C: 12.1; DOJ, Section 508: i)

Note: The use of frames often presents problems for search indexing, book marking, or printing content. If the intent of your frameset is to provide navigation elements, your cause is better served by using server-side includes or the site management features of a robust design program.

Example: 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN">  <HTML>
<HEAD>
	<TITLE>Title of Your Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>  
<FRAMESET cols="10%, 90%"   	TITLE="Our library of electronic documents">    <FRAME SRC="nav.html" title="Navigation bar">           
<FRAME SRC="doc.html" title="Documents">  
<NOFRAMES>
	<A HREF="lib.html" TITLE="Library link"> 
	Select to go to the electronic library</A> 
</NOFRAMES>  
</FRAMESET>