• Success Criterion 2.4.2
  • Conformance level A

Page Title That Doesn’t Reflect the Current Step or State

2.4.2 — Page Titled

Scenario

Setting

A project-management tool's task board

What’s wrong

Search/results/step pages not reflecting state ("Checkout" on all 5 steps).

Example 

<title>Board</title>
<!-- identical whether viewing Sprint 12, Backlog, or Q3 Roadmap -->

Why it matters

A user with three different project boards open in tabs can't tell which board is which without clicking into each one.

How to test

Check titles on search results, multi-step forms, or status pages: if the title doesn't reflect the current state ('Checkout' shown identically on all 5 steps), it fails.

How to fix

Drive the title from the board's actual name so open tabs stay distinguishable.

function setBoardTitle(boardName) {
  document.title = `${boardName} Board - ProjTrack`;
}

Outcome

A user picks out the right sprint board from their open tabs without clicking through each one.

Who is affected

Users managing multiple boards, including those with cognitive disabilities, waste time re-checking tabs they can't distinguish.

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