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Re: Site Level Alt Tag validators?

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From: Cameron Cundiff
Date: Sep 13, 2013 6:20AM

Hi Nancy, you'll likely want a service that will be some combination of
spidering and manually added list of urls, that also evaluates javascript.

If your content is exclusively static pages, you might be in ok shape with
spidering. If you have content that has a lot of forms and possible
workflow states, spidering may not yield comprehensive coverage. For
instance, if in order to get to the profile page you need to submit a form
to create a user, spidering will not be a complete solution.

The service Alastair pointed to <https://validator-suite.w3.org/> looks
like a great start. However, it does not evaluate
javascript<https://validator-suite.w3.org/faqs#javascript>.
That is an unrealistic and incomplete representation of many web pages.
(See Karl Grove's mother effing tool
confuser<http://mothereffingtoolconfuser.com/>;for more detail). It
also seems to rely on spidering alone.

Pivotal Labs and CaseCommons have successfully integrated some validation
into an integration test suite that covers an entire application. The tool
is called capybara-accessible<https://github.com/casecommons/capybara-accessible>.
It is open source under the MIT license, and It requires that you have a
test suite that uses Ruby and Capybara, a fairly common setup in Ruby on
Rails projects in particular.

Disclosure: I work at Pivotal Labs (CaseCommons is a client) and I am a
maintainer on capybara-accessible.




On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Alastair Campbell < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Jens O. Meiert wrote:
>
> > > Are there any validators out there, specifically for alt tag testing,
> > > that will check the entire site and not just one page?
> >
>
> I think the W3C has just released the validator as a service
> https://validator-suite.w3.org/ I seem to remember it did spidering and
> multiple pages, although I haven't checked into the exact details yet.
>
> -Alastair
> > > >