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META HTTP-EQUIV refresh

Requirement Reference

Test Suite: UAAG 1.0 Test Suite for HTML 4.01: Guideline 3: Allow configuration not to render some content that may reduce accessibility; Checkpoint 3.5: Toggle automatic content retrieval; Provision 3.5.1: Allow configuration so that the user agent only retrieves content on explicit user request.

Test is required for conformance

Procedure

This page automatically refreshes every 5 seconds.
Configure the user agent to only refresh content on explicit user request.

Test

Source Code

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
document.write("Number of automatic refreshes: " + hitCt + " ")
</script>

Results

The user agent may satisfy this requirement by alerting the user of the refresh rate specified in content, and allowing the user to request fresh content manually.

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