Do not use the metadata element to refresh or redirect web pages automatically. Use metadata to describe or provide specific information about individual web documents. Metadata often includes a list of keywords enabling search engines to conduct a more accurate and refined search. It can also contain content ratings, author information, site maps, stream channel definitions, a document's primary language, and digital library collections.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <metahttp-equiv="refresh" content="http://www.foo.com/bar.html" /> </head> <body> </body> </html>
W3C WAI: http://www.w3.org/WAI//
HTML Techniques for WAI 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/