Rules · document-title
Failure reference
Pages without a descriptive title.
The title is the first thing announced on page load and the label on every tab. Empty or duplicated titles strip orientation from the whole session.
What fails — and who it fails
The failure, in plain language.
Missing <title>, empty titles, or the same title on every page — common on templated checkouts and SPA fallbacks.
Detection — what the machine can and cannot judge
How the scanner finds it.
- Every scanned page is checked for a non-empty <title>; duplicates across the crawl are reported as a pattern.
The legal reading — factual, not fearful
Where this sits in enforcement.
Level A and visible in the browser chrome itself — the rare finding an assessor can capture without any assistive technology running.
The fix — by pattern
The pattern that clears it.
- <title>Shop</title>
+ <title>Warenkorb — Beispiel Commerce</title>Fix the template, not the page — one change typically clears every instance at once. The triage engine groups findings by template pattern for exactly that reason.
Verification — resolution is evidence, not a checkbox
Fixed means a scan said so.
On monitored domains, mark the finding fixed and the next scan verifies it: zero remaining instances converts the finding to Resolved, and both the claim and the confirmation land in the append-only ledger. Criteria that need human judgement close through sign-off in the coverage matrix — covered by the right method, never by assumption.
Related failures:
See where your templates stand.
A complimentary assessment renders up to 25 public pages in an EU-hosted browser and shows every instance of this failure — grouped, ranked, and honest about what still needs a human.