When the sub-documents of such a frameset state are accessed directly, they appear without the context of the surrounding frameset. Also, browsers cannot identify which frame should have focus, which affects scrolling, searching, and the use of keyboard shortcuts in general. Both of these factors cause accessibility problems for browsers that differ significantly from the author's expectations and for search engines. Search engines can link directly to framed content documents, but they cannot link to the combinations of frames for which those content documents were designed. This is the result of a fundamental flaw in the design of frames .
Search engines try to provide their users with links to useful documents.
Such content should be useful when accessed directly from a search-engine link. The Dutch translation of this FAQ was prepared by Rijk van Geijtenbeek. All rights reserved.