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From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Wed, Sep 11 2013 9:20AM
Subject: Site Level Alt Tag validators?
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Are there any validators out there, specifically for alt tag testing,
that will check the entire site and not just one page?

Thanks,

Nancy

From: Jens O. Meiert
Date: Fri, Sep 13 2013 12:01AM
Subject: Re: Site Level Alt Tag validators?
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> Are there any validators out there, specifically for alt tag testing,
> that will check the entire site and not just one page?

There are a number of accessibility tools *and* validators out there,
see <http://uitest.com/en/analysis/>; (disclosure: I own this site but
lack a better alternative to point to).

Personally I’m aware of only one tool though that does something like
a full site validation (alas not for HTML 5 documents),
<http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/>;.



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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Fri, Sep 13 2013 5:11AM
Subject: Re: Site Level Alt Tag validators?
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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

From: Cameron Cundiff
Date: Fri, Sep 13 2013 6:20AM
Subject: Re: Site Level Alt Tag validators?
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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 ADDRESS 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
> > > >

From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Fri, Sep 13 2013 12:26PM
Subject: Re: Site Level Alt Tag validators?
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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 ADDRESS 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 ADDRESS 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
>> >> >> >>
> > >

From: Rabab Gomaa
Date: Fri, Sep 13 2013 12:52PM
Subject: Re: Site Level Alt Tag validators?
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Hi Nancy,

You can add also on the list Total validator Pro.
I am investigated validation tools and came across Total validator Pro. and Compliance Sheriff.

- Compliance Sheriff (http://www.hisoftware.com/products/hisoftware-compliance-sheriff.aspx) has one module specific for image alt (Alt text Quality report). Scans can be run on a page level as well as on site level.

- Total validator Basic/Pro. http://totalvalidator.com/ provides image alt errors and warnings as part of the errors report. The error messages are easy to read and understand. Scan might be slow if you do it on the site level.

Rabab