Embedded frames share the same title

Why it matters

Screen readers name each embedded frame by its title, and can list all frames on a page. Pasted embed codes often come with the same generic title — three videos all called "YouTube video player" — so visitors cannot tell which one is the product tour and which is the customer interview before going into it.

Who it affects: Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, screen reader users whose speech is drowned out by audio, and people with vestibular or attention disorders affected by motion.

What Lumtera flags

Two or more embedded frames with the same title (or aria-label) but different addresses. Case and spacing are ignored when comparing. The same embed used twice is repetition, not ambiguity, and is not reported; frames named with aria-labelledby are skipped.

Check ID iframe-duplicate-title — use it to filter the content report or with wp lumtera issues --rule.

How to fix it in WordPress

Give each embedded frame a title that says what it contains, e.g. title="Video: how to repot a cactus" and title="Map of our Leeds shop". Pasted embed codes often come with a generic title such as "YouTube video player"; edit it in the HTML.

Example

<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/abc123" title="YouTube video player"></iframe>
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/def456" title="YouTube video player"></iframe>

<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/abc123" title="Video: product tour"></iframe>
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/def456" title="Video: customer interview"></iframe>

How to check your fix

1. Update the post. The issue disappears from the Accessibility sidebar on the next check, and from the site report on the next scan.
2. Play the page with the sound off, then with a screen reader on. Speech should be captioned, nothing should play sound by itself, and anything that moves should be stoppable.