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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Dec 16, 2016 11:03AM

Karl Groves set up the provocatively named but brilliant
http://www.mothereffingtoolconfuser.com
This is a webpage whose HTML source code has a number of accessibility
issues, all of which are fixed with JQuery that runs on page load.
So the HTML source has a bunch of issues, the DOM should have 0.
If a tool reports a bunch of errors on this page, either it tested the
HTML source, or there is something happening with JavaScript not
running (I have seen it happen when trying to test this page from
behind a corporate firewall).
But if the tool reports 0 errors, it is testing the DOM.
I had a SiteImprove tech guy test this page for me (in SiteImprove you
cannot test a random page yourself,only the domain you have access
to). He said it returned 0 errors, Based on that info they test the
DOM.

-B


On 12/16/16, Sean Keegan < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Have you verified with SiteImprove that the tool does not check the DOM? I
> raised this question with two different technical people at SiteImprove
> several months ago and both said the tool is evaluating the DOM, not the
> source code.
>
> Take care,
> Sean
>
>
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Bossley, Peter A." < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> Cc:
>> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:16:11 +0000
>> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessibility training and scanning solutions
>> providers
>> Siteimprove doesn't appear to actually test the DOM, so I bounced them off
>> the list for that one alone.
>>
>>
>>
> > > > >


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