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Re: Site Level Alt Tag validators?

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From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Sep 13, 2013 12:26PM

Thank you,

I will look through these resources.. Ideally, I would like to pass
something one to content developers updating a CMS system as my checks
are on typical pages and not every page.

Nancy Johnson

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Cameron Cundiff < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
>> >> >> >>
> > >