Goal
- Display pages offline correctly, by telling the browser which character set was used.
- Prevent the risk of character display problems associated with the sometimes unsure functioning of browsers’ catch-up mechanisms when they don’t receive the necessary information from the HTTP content-type header.
- Improve the accessibility of content for people with disabilities.
- Improve the way content is taken into account by search engines and indexing tools.
Implementation
The meta element is completed according to the actual encoding of the document and its MIME type in the format:
meta charset="utf-8"in HTML5
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Control
This criterion can be checked by examining the source code, using a development tool. For each page:
- Check that the meta element http-equiv = "Content- Type" or charset is there.
- Check the relevance of the character set indicated in its content or charset attribute.
Business application and benefits
The rules should be applied to your projects from the design phase through to post-implementation , and they should be understood by all professionals with web and customer experience (CX) responsibilities: from strategy to operations, marketers to project managers, and editorial to technical staff. The benefits of using this ruleset are numerous, including improving customer satisfaction, web performance, and e-commerce, and expanding your client base, while also decreasing your errors and costs.
The objective of these rules and the Opquast community mission is ‘making the web better’ for your customers and for everyone! Opquast rules cover the key major areas of risk that can negatively affect website users such as privacy, ecodesign, accessibility and security.
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