The page refreshes or redirects itself on a timer
A <meta http-equiv="refresh"> reloads or redirects this page after a delay.
Why it matters
A <meta http-equiv="refresh"> reloads or redirects this page after a delay. It moves people off the page before they may have finished reading, and a screen-reader user gets no warning — a WCAG 2.2.1 failure. Remove the meta refresh; if you need a redirect, do it server-side with a 301/302, and if you need to poll for updates, do it in the background without reloading the whole page.
How ShipReady detects it
Per-page accessibility signals read straight from the fetched HTML — no extra requests. Page-scoped because images, forms and controls differ between routes (a marketing homepage vs a signup form), and the route carrying the form is the one worth seeing.
Detection is deterministic. ShipReady reports this only when it observes the condition directly, and prefers to miss a real problem over inventing one. Rule version 1.0.0.
How to fix it
This is the prompt ShipReady puts in your report — written to be pasted straight into Cursor, Claude Code, or whichever assistant built the app.
This page uses <meta http-equiv="refresh"> to reload or redirect itself after a delay, which moves people off the page before they may have finished and gives screen-reader users no warning (a WCAG 2.2.1 failure). Remove the meta refresh tag. If you need to send visitors to a new URL, do it with a server-side 301 or 302 redirect instead. If you were using it to poll for new data, fetch the data in the background (fetch/XHR) and update the page in place rather than reloading it.
Frequently asked questions
- What does "The page refreshes or redirects itself on a timer" mean?
- A <meta http-equiv="refresh"> reloads or redirects this page after a delay.
- How serious is it?
- ShipReady rates this medium. Fix soon. Meaningfully weakens a defence or degrades how the site works.
- How do I fix it?
- Paste the fix prompt on this page into Cursor, Claude Code or your AI editor. It is the same prompt ShipReady puts in your report.
- Can I check my own site?
- Yes — ShipReady scans up to ten pages of any public site for free and reports this alongside every other check. The free report lists every issue it finds and shows full evidence and a fix prompt for the critical and high-severity ones; medium and low findings are counted and unlock on Pro.
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